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In short, I don’t really “need” to work in order to live, but I am very passionate about AI design and agentic applications after having built out a native app in my own after having completed some online training and projects.
So I had one interview with a company for a tech owner positing revolving around agentic AI and development and after seeing my resume, all 4 of my interviewers wanted to talk ONLY about my wife’s company and how it is generating revenue. I kept telling them that it’s her business and that I just founded it but now I’m ready to go back to work. Despite all of this, they just weren’t having it.
What this experience revealed to me is that genuinely wanting to go back to work out of passion and having a proven track record is not as attractive as someone who is sick of his/her current job but pretending to have all this success at their current employment, lying through their teeth just to fake a promotion at the next place.
It’s like the power that the company (employer) has over its slaves…er uh, I mean “employees” can exist ONLY if the said employee is completely dependent upon the job as a means to live and constantly live in fear of being ousted from work and having to become homeless on the street. If the job applicant does not have this fear because he/she doesn’t have to depend on receiving a paycheck and has other means to survive and live comfortably even if the master (employer) shitcans them, this completely shifts the power dynamics of the employer/employee relationship and makes them almost fearful and uncomfortable.
Seriously, if this doesn’t reveal how completely fucked up and odious the entire premise of capitalistic relationships is, i don’t know what else does. Peeling away the layers of this employer/employee relationship dynamics just proves that nothing other than transactional gain motivates anything in the system of capitalism. No one gives a flying shit whether or not you “enjoy” your work which always makes me laugh whenever I hear these simps talking about how contributing to the company mission is what motivates them to work harder or companies saying that they love seeing motivated employees who care about what they do and are willing to go outside their swim lane to pay it forward. Such outdated boomer-esque bullshit malarky that has no context in the 21st century.
Chief
Sounds like you don't know how to play the game. Corporate isn't for you.
Chief
I don't mind it
The indignance doesn’t resonate unfortunately
Enthusiast
Also, this is a duplication. I read this on here a few months ago