It seems I've been brainwashed into thinking I have intellectual needs & personal life goals as well as family and home needs. That damned technocratic order. Without it, reading, thinking & writing would never have occurred to me as something I want (need, actually) to do. https://twitter.com/WolfHornet/status/962664632824619008 …
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There could be a class issue here as well as an attitude one. I was raised to think that I can do whatever I want and that finding out what I enjoy is central to that. By my very socially conservative father, btw, who thoroughly (& inexplicably) enjoyed being an insurance broker.
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I have done jobs I didn't like. I once, very briefly, an accounts clerk. I stopped doing that & went into care work which paid much less but was much more fun.
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I do think this is mostly an attitude thing. An apathy. A lack of having a passion for anything. Perhaps the greatest privilege in life is being good at something you love doing & getting paid for it.
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But I digress (as usual). In short, it is usually people who have no intellectual interest/professional ambition of their own who find it difficult to understand that women might have & say things like 'You're lost.' I don't feel particularly lost.
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And it’s not always just about the work itself. For me, working with a team of adult people is more satisfying than being at home with littles ones all day every day. People act like women working and being temporarily separated from their offspring is a new phenomenon, it’s not.
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In some countries, it’s older siblings who take care of the young ones whilst the mother is out working. Plus day care facilities have existed far longer than just the last two centuries
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