We recently had two of our best workers leave. One, a talented and hardworking young chef was with us for a year and a half and the other was a chef/manager who stayed a couple of years longer than him. The consensus at work is that change is good, it is exciting, everyone needs a change and so good for them but in my view it can look lousy on a resume or job application. Yeah, change is jazzy for the person leaving, new adventures and mountains to climb, but to a potential employer it looks like you get bored easily with your jobs or disgruntled or something at least after a time. Stability is boring though and to preach its value over the idea of change leaves you in the definite minority. It bears noting that both of these men who left are young, in the mid to late 20's range, and so being young they haven't yet discovered the wisdom of traditional values like stability. In this sense a job is like a marriage and these two guys haven't settled down yet.
Some will say personal responsibility is the key behind the conservative movement but personal responsibility is only one thing that leads to social stability. It is stability, stability in the social and sexual sphere, in one's work, in life in general that is the real driving force behind conservatism. This is why conservatives preach marriage is between a man and a woman, why committed relationships, while not as strong as marriage, are far preferable to promiscuity, why many times it is better to stick with one job even though it may cause you no end of grief (Mom's wisdom), that boss you may hate may be transferred soon if you just hang in there. Young people like motion and movement is inherent to change, the wisdom of stability doesn't appeal to them yet as it represents inertia, sexually, socially, workwise and in every way.
They say most people start out more liberal in their earlier years and become more conservative with age. I don't know if this is true for Kirk Douglas who still feels the immature male need to brag about the sexual conquests in his youth (his controversial new autobiography Let's Face It - 90 Years of Living, Loving and Learning) but for me conservatism makes the most sense. A society without stability is chaos.People who masturbate your mind
Amen, brother.
ReplyDeleteOn the flip side, of course, the chaotic side, anything goes, as long as it "feels good" then be damned the moral compass! The libs are all about this, who cares if you hurt another? It's all about what I want and need, and let the government pay for it, too. Oh, I don't want to be pregnant, let's just rip that baby outta my womb! It's all about ME! Is this stability? No, it is anything goes, chaos, classic liberalism. And it sucks.
ReplyDeleteMind you, these two guys who left were not going to higher-paying or more glamorous jobs, if that were the case then more power to you, you have to do what you have to do. In both cases they left for jobs that matched their pay or even paid less, they have personality types that become disgruntled and dissatisfied wherever they go, and you could say they hurt their fellow workers who then have to pick up the slack which is why the bosses never gave 'em any farewell cakes. You go through the trouble of training these people and they're only doing it for some quick cash, they have no job commitment where you build up your raises and pensions over time but it will come back to bite 'em in the long run if they don't change their ways.
ReplyDeleteYou mention the word "commitment" and it's that notion that people want to brush aside when things get hard or when they think they could find pleasure if not for that damn commitment they made.
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