This is the factory I worked at ten years ago, SEL in Pullman, WA (my role particularly at 5:48 ish). idk how people cheerfully work long term on factory floors; many of my coworkers seemed to have managed it!
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When I did factory work, I got by on music and talk radio. Thank god I was raised in a time when MP3 players existed.
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Thanks for sharing. In doing repetitive work I found variation was crucial. Doing one thing for 8 hours was misery but getting to switch back and forth between two things was strangely refreshing. Three things and I was good!
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It just occurred to me that you may be the most famous person to have ever worked there.
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imagine additional circumstances such that the potential suffering risked by leaving is higher than the suffering of staying (and apply your usual future-suffering discount)
e.g., you must provide for a child, or your risk tolerance is lower, etc
what would have kept you there?
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i worked on the palletizer line in a production plant for 4 years. other than overtime pay, the thing that kept me going was the camaraderie. we all wore earplugs bc it was so loud but we developed our own sign language so we could still shit talk each other during 12 hr shifts.
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How about sweatshops where workers (prob all women) used to sew clothes all day circa 1900? Bet that was fun!
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work with very clearly defined paramaters and purpose is ideal for many people. they work for a wage that enables their actual life and interest. the factory floor job disappears at 5pm and reappears at 9am unchanged and occupies no space in between.
not for everyone
