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by seph-reed 1814 days ago
Community is usually the thing that makes a menial job feel meaningful.
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That's one ingredient, sure. But speaking as a millennial, there was plenty of propaganda in American schools that made it seem like if you weren't working in an office, you failed at life. Now we have people who worked in offices throughout their 20s, running and screaming from those office jobs to discover that there is fulfillment in real work.

Problem is, lots of people still believe having callouses on your hands make you a second class citizen or sub-human since your opinion no longer matters.

And labourous jobs dont need community to be fulfilling. Lots of folks enjoy work working, house renovation and their own property maintenance for their own benefit. That and it's a free workout a lot of times.