If you could only have one, would you rather have the friends you made along the way or succeed at your originally stated mission?
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What percentage of people talk like this and do any of them have blue collar jobs that are vital to society like farmer or sewer maintenance?
Feeding thousands of people and keeping sewers flowing to promote public hygiene are both more important than a few friends. Probably a higher proportion of blue-collar jobs are actually useful to others than white-collar jobs.
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That’s sort of my point. This talk of “life mission” seems to be peculiar to people whose work is most abstract and removed from that kind of vital work. I’m just musing.
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We have had people with missions (meaning?) for as long as we have had mankind; musing the other way, what leads to the thought that only the abstracted work has the tinge of mission?
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lol...a sanitation worker's "life goal" is not to promote public hygiene. Their friends are probably much more important to them, especially if they had to choose between them and their goal of "making enough money to pay my mortgage/rent".
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Agreed. Seriously, indoor plumbing and proper sewage are two of the single greatest inventions of society in history. Wildly under-appeciated.
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