Delivering mail is meaningful for sure! So is teaching, people want to do these things and sometimes it lines up that there’s a market for it too.
The premium is that stuff like my job where I’m fiddling on Azure is to the benefit of no one and making four times as much.
If you want something meaningful you have to accept worse conditions because all the wonderful lovely people of the world who care and want to make a difference want to work there and not somewhere else.
And it’s interesting you picked mail as an example, when at least in the USA it’s run by the state ;p
I don’t really think it’s horrible that it’s not possible to mooch off your community and give back nothing forever but I don’t think ‘a little incentive’ is the right way of putting it, especially for all the people that hate their jobs for reasonable reasons but stay at it because of the alternative.
The premium is that stuff like my job where I’m fiddling on Azure is to the benefit of no one and making four times as much.
If you want something meaningful you have to accept worse conditions because all the wonderful lovely people of the world who care and want to make a difference want to work there and not somewhere else.
And it’s interesting you picked mail as an example, when at least in the USA it’s run by the state ;p
I don’t really think it’s horrible that it’s not possible to mooch off your community and give back nothing forever but I don’t think ‘a little incentive’ is the right way of putting it, especially for all the people that hate their jobs for reasonable reasons but stay at it because of the alternative.