It feels exhausting when you don’t have any control over what happens with your time at work.
I can remember being employed in an eight-to-five job, ticking boxes, and trying to look for other things to do when I’ve already finished the tasks for the day. The sad thing is we were not given much creativity to spend the time we had left. Like we were seen pretending to do work rather than doing something that could help create a better system. We were forced to become replaceable cogs in the system.
The lack of autonomy is just limiting, isn’t it?
Sure, not all jobs are like that.
Meanwhile, working in an output-based job is not for everyone too. While others are contented with waiting for a checklist of what to do next, people who find joy in working in output-based jobs are not afraid of getting uncomfortable.
In what way, you ask?
It feels uncomfortable to do things that are never done before, right? So you have to try and test and assess if it works. If it doesn’t, you should be brave enough to walk away and find new ways of doing things.
And having a say in how to get to the goal and having autonomy is, in its way, refreshing. It makes you feel like a human instead of an unfeeling cog in the machine.
jessa 