[mkmk3]

Most people are in survival mode, and it's a socially vulnerable thing to admit you don't like the work. It requires a level of safety, by being honest about it and supportive of others hopefully we can get to the point where we can collectively acknowledge them and maybe try to address them.

It's also just not fun to think about why life sucks, and it makes life a little harder to begin with I think. So it requires some tact. People bringing it up as a subjective and personal take that they just want to share, as opposed to an objective fact that needs to change, has made it easier for me to take others more seriously in this area.

Sorry you felt like the minority, hope you can get to/create an environment where you feel better understood.

[silverquiet]

Yes, I've been in a company that was being dismantled by private equity. People would act like everything was normal in meetings and then you'd hear reports about people crying in more one-on-one type situations. Certainly it tore me up to the point that when the layoff came, I was actually relieved.

I'm extremely introverted and have a hard time telling this sort of thing to anyone but my therapist, but I was under the impression that I'm a bit unusual. Obviously in this forum, I can speak my mind because of the relative anonymity.

I often wonder if people do in fact understand what is making them unhappy; it often seems so clear to me. For instance, working from home is so sought after, but for me it was a disaster; the thought of being chained to a desk in my house for the next few decades of worked seemed close to living in hell (or at least the office). As I said, I'm quite introverted, but that level of singular toil is incredibly unnatural to me; I don't understand how anyone can do it, and yet people would accuse me of being some sort of shill on this site for laying that out.

And so, I got an in person job at a company that makes a product that I think is useful. I would be laughed at if I said what I got paid or some of the old technologies we use, but you know what - I might actually be in the twenty percent these days. I've actually told people that my job is a source of pride and satisfaction for me. Now my biggest fear (it'll probably never go away) is that we lose relevance/customers and I'll have to find something else.