Do you love to work?
This week on Social Media (ain’t y’all glad I bring you these little tales?) there were two clips of a women having to do with work situations.
- Was a clip of a woman who’s supervisor was trying to shame her for not staying after work for “just a 10 minutes meeting” and the girl (looked about 25?) replying with “you should know better than to schedule meetings after work hours, I work from 9 to 5)
- Was a clip of an older woman talking and mocking someone she had interviewed for a position and when she asked the person why they wanted the job the person said “because I need money”.
These two clips got me off and on thinking about work. I have been fortunate that of my 3 long lasting jobs I loved 2 of them, the third one I liked the work but the boss was a nightmare to work for. 1 job lasted almost 20 plus years until the quake, the 2nd one 6 years and the 3rd one 4 years, now I work from home since my illness but my fixed income (1k a week) comes from the same boss and that one is 7 or some years. Been working since I was 16 folks and I’m nearing 60 for those adding up. The only 1 year or less jobs I had were before my 20’s. Even my Au pair stint in Austria was 2 years.
Now even though I’ve loved my jobs, I do not work because I love to work, I work because I need money to live. If it were up to me I’d be living in a library type setting and teaching kids about books, authors, philosophy, cooking, sewing, putting stuff together, CRT, etc…
But we live in a world where we are brainwashed into thinking we need to love working and be a proud team member of the company… who pays you basic salary and stiffs you on benefits why?
Most companies aren’t loyal to their employees, tries to cut corners on everything that would benefit employees, yet still expects them to be loyal to them as if giving people a job was doing them some sort of favor. Right now they are all scrambling to see how AI can take over people’s jobs really? On that note lots of companies are rolling back AI because well duh mistakes are costly and when you lack the human factor, weirdly enough you get more mistakes and those mistakes are exponentially more serious and costly.
So, how do you feel about your jobs? Past or present? Do you think you owe your employers loyalty? Do you work to live or live to work?
Ps. Most of my jobs have to do with communication-marketing.
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Muriel Vieux – March 12th, 2026 – ©All rights reserved
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