Writing greeting cards
I’m not saying Tom was wrong to dislike his job—we enjoy what we enjoy—but personally I’d love to write greeting cards for a living. I really liked the layout of the office too. Very conducive to collaboration, etc.
shareI’m not saying Tom was wrong to dislike his job—we enjoy what we enjoy—but personally I’d love to write greeting cards for a living. I really liked the layout of the office too. Very conducive to collaboration, etc.
shareMy issue is that can't possibly be a real job?
There's 40 hours a week of work to go around doing that?
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I've said this in another thread but I doubt that's literally all he does. If he's part of the design department, he probably has to put the entire layout together. And this would involve a bit of market research too - looking at what cards have sold well in the past, why that's happened, what types of cards sell the best etc. Then there's probably creating all the content - designing it himself or getting the images from somewhere else (and going through the necessary copyright procedure). I'm guessing he does have to put the prototype together if the "*beep* you whore" card is able to actually get made.
His job probably isn't just to come up with a really good card that might sell. It's more like coming up with five possible ones with only one or two that might get chosen. And this is putting them in circulation every week. Thinking up a nice slogan might seem easy, but when you have to do it for numerous different cards every day it's probably a bit taxing. But I think the point is that the job is unchallenging and unfulfilling.
Yes, it's a real job. And yes, there's enough work to requires 40 hours a week, and sometimes even more.
shareMy issue is that can't possibly be a real job?
There's 40 hours a week of work to go around doing that?
yah i was like is this even a job
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