I don't think the author is recommending their experience. He's merely talking about what he did and what happened. We've known for millennia that physical work sucks. That's why the lowest echelons of society always end up doing the worst of it. This, I think, is why previous generations were so emphatic about college education. In their experience, it was a ticket out of doing physically taxing work.
Overly taxing and dangerous physical work sucks. Working in a professional kitchen is some of the most fun and (non-monetary) rewarding work I've ever done.
Maybe Amazon should take a cue from the service industry and have a lot more sex and drugs in their warehouses. Right now it's all misery and desperation.
> service industry and have a lot more sex and drugs in their warehouses.
Nope.
The business insurance usually requires drug free or zero tolerance policies, especially with forklifts, unmanned delivery robots, trucks, conveyors, and all other hazardous warehouse conditions around.
Heh, business insurance is one thing. Some of the guys I’ve worked with are another. One swore up and down he couldn’t be functional before a toke and getting lifted was safer for us all.
And after 5 years you start to have feet, knees and leg issues. My sister worked at (very)good restaurants for six years, there is a reason why she started college at 23. It got easier when she got to 'second', since she could reserve herself the "easy" cleaning tasks and the inventory, but still.
Definitely. My dad always recalled working on the Navy Ship yard and how cold it was before saying to himself, "F--- this" and going to college to become an accountant.
> If I had it my way, tech workers wouldn’t take sabbaticals just to climb Machu Picchu or see Antarctica — some subset of them, the set for whom the malaise I’m describing resonates, would instead take their sabbatical at an Amazon warehouse.
I thought you were kidding, but this is actually in part 2 of the interview.
I guess the author is happy about transitioning from depression to living in a fantasy world with no basis in reality, but I think most of us would prefer to keep our vacations... vacations
