[sixtyj]

If people are unable to find joy in their paid work even after some time, they should consider doing something else.

For sure, sufficient money is important part of this equation.

But I strongly believe that if you find (your sort of) fun in what you do then you become faster and more efficient at it.

Edit: Cleaning, nursing etc. Yes there are professions that almost no one wants to do. But that doesn’t mean that these people do it just for money.. this is prejudice that if you don’t like it and don’t have fun that other people are the same. No, they aren’t.

[sdevonoes]

Wheres the joy in cleaning public toilets? Should all of those workers leave?

[sixtyj]

It is a prejudice. You have to ask them. Ask nurses why they do what they do. Ask house cleaning stuff why they do it. For sure, a lot of people stay in their jobs because they don’t have any opportunity. But if you go deep enough you find out that a lot of them found some sort of fun while doing their cleaning-public-toilet-sort-of-job. (I have done my research so I know what I am talking about.)

[oblio]

The real test for your theory is what people do when they're not getting paid. I have never in my life heard of a large forum/subreddit/WhatsApp group for cleaning toilets. There are no toilet cleaning meetups.

Some, actually many, jobs are just shitty.

[dingaling]

Finding fun moments to make a job tolerable is very, very far away from doing a job because they enjoy it.