Road to nowhere

WhiteWalls

Could a hard working person in their 50's end up in a dead end, depressing, repetitive and poorly paid job? I'm working in a factory at the minute where there are men and women of that age doing the same thing as me. No exaggeration, I would prefer to die now than to be in the job for the foreseeable future.

Could you realistically work hard all your life and try and better yourself every day and still end up at this?

I'm not saying that they have been in this job all of their lives, the recession has affected them but I really do feel sorry for them.

Buzz Killington the third

Here, just quit or go to Personal Issues... :pac:

Lucifer MorningStar

Snobby post

Sam Kade

How much have you saved so far for your early retirement?

fleet_admiral

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Could a hard working person in their 50's end up in a dead end, depressing, repetitive and poorly paid job? I'm working in a factory at the minute where there are men and women of that age doing the same thing as me. No exaggeration, I would prefer to die now than to be in the job for the foreseeable future.

Could you realistically work hard all your life and try and better yourself every day and still end up at this?

I'm not saying that they have been in this job all of their lives, the recession has affected them but I really do feel sorry for them.

I'd shovel shite if it provided for my family

SEPT 23 1989

Maybe they have a family to feed and are trying to keep a roof over their heads,we all have dreams of better things which keeps us going and but you can't eat dreams ,,you have to make huge personal sacrifices sometimes when you are bringing up a family

Legs.Eleven

What's the question?

Awkward Badger

I think peoples perspectives change over time. Where you might see it as a dead end job and wasted existence now you may see it as something entirely different by the time you get to that age yourself.

WhiteWalls

I'm not saying that all factory work is the same, I'v worked in a different factory previous to this and I loved it. I would happily do it for years and years but the place I'm in now is next to prison

josip

We're all on the road to somewhere.
Different roads but the destination is the same for all of us.
Just passing through.
Marking time.
Totally insignificant blips in the life of the universe.
From Messi to Pope Benedict to Lady Gaga to Stephen Hawking to the guy next to you in the factory.
All of us absolutely irrelevant in the bigger scale of things.
<Puts on Radiohead...>

H0P3 4 M0R3

Well we know where we're going but we don't know where we've been

Hande hoche!

OP how long have you been working there?

coolemon

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Could you realistically work hard all your life and try and better yourself every day and still end up at this?

It could be their disposition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology).

That is, they may not have the same aspirations as you. They may not believe in their own ability to do that something else. They may not have a social circle or social connections for which to envisage or be influenced by another route or possibility in life.

While you might see an opportunity they see nothing and are oblivious to it.