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76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

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Re: 76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

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Post by dvtv75 »

BatFastard wrote: post #22
madengr wrote: post #14

Money isn't everything, but it sucks being poor. The older I get, I'm finding money is more important. Between the costs of college savings, retirement savings, medical savings, you'd better be paying your high performance employees well. They may like their work (like me), but money still talks. Regarding the medical savings it's a race to the bottom for employer provided benefits. I no longer have dental insurance…

I can appreciate what you are saying, esp with health care. However as I grow older I find money matters less to me (and not because I have a lot of it), I would just much rather ENJOY my craft. Crazy deadlines, horrible tech debt, bad management, are all things I have been thru and do not wish to repeat. "Life's too short to be in a hurry" - batFastard

My guess is that you've crossed the threshold where you have enough money to get by. For me, money matters significantly, remains important, and will do so for the foreseeable future.

I have bills to pay, food that I need to eat, transport to buy so that I can get to work, but my job doesn't pay enough for all of the above. If I could be paid for my value to the company, I would be in your position. (I train all the staff, a decade's experience working with the poorly designed systems and badly installed hardware. I help the senior staff do their work when everything goes to hell because the IT guys wouldn't do their jobs properly.) Instead, I'm expected to do all this for free - so, I've just started disappearing when it hits the fan.

I would much rather enjoy what I do, but since it doesn't pay enough for me to survive, I have little choice in the matter.

Re: 76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

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Post by sauronlord »

Look at what people do, not what they are saying.

They are motivated by all the great things money provides (nice family life, nice house, travel, health care)

That 78% of respondents are brained washed to repeat "do it for the passion/masterery/unicorns".

Show me one of these 78%-ers who will not work like crazy for a million dollars in a single year or two

Re: 76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

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Post by robertlagrant »

All my other comments have been said, apart from: what the heck did the bit about karma have to do with anything? If it'd said "Jesus is the reason you're born to your parents" rather than karma, I'm pretty sure that would've rightly attracted some anti-proselytizing comments. Karma or "the universe" aren't any less religious ideas - are we just trained to be offended by some things and not others?

Re: 76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

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Post by rublev »

gozur88 wrote: post #59
psyc wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it makes any sense to call that a 'view' - other than the trite philosophical sense in which everybody's worldview is their own. Not sure what part of Marx's analysis of class struggle would actually depend on personal opinion in any meaningful way.

Because it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes?

>Because it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes?

Do you feel okay in the head?

Re: 76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

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Post by astrange »

gozur88 wrote: post #59
psyc wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it makes any sense to call that a 'view' - other than the trite philosophical sense in which everybody's worldview is their own. Not sure what part of Marx's analysis of class struggle would actually depend on personal opinion in any meaningful way.

Because it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes?

Yes, anyone who lives in SFBA is very obviously struggling against those that came before and built single-family housing on all the land.

Re: 76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

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Post by OJFord »

JDiculous wrote: post #58
dmix wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would high performing employees with office jobs be "lower class"? As others mentioned once you hit a certain income threshold and job security, then you can start prioritizing the parts of the job you enjoy. This is who the article is talking about. This means keeping a $60k job instead of sacrificing your happiness for $90-100k. That's hardly quasi-religious phenomena. It's a luxury of skilled people living in…

They're not lower class, but not truly upper class either because they have to work for a living.

> They're not lower class, but not truly upper class either

Yes, if only there were a word for someone in the middle.

Re: 76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

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Post by gozur88 »

rublev wrote: post #74
gozur88 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes?

>Because it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes? Do you feel okay in the head?

Absolutely. I don't carry the same burden of paranoia that other people seem to have. You?
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