A friend of mine who lives in Japan once wrote in her blog about her friend who had been stuck in a dead-end job. My friend described how her friend had been “made” to do mundane, non-exciting work for many years, such as making coffee for her bosses, making copies of the documents, filing etc. and not given more challenging tasks at her job. Her friend thinks about leaving that job from time to time, but finds herself trapped because she doesn’t have any transferable skills. The blog post continued with, “Of course, the reason why she doesn’t have many transferable skills is because her company does not give her tasks through which she can learn those skills”. I had a very strong reaction to that sentence. I didn’t comment to that post – I did not agree with her at all, but I didn’t know how to offer a different point of view without sounding like I am attacking her or belittling her friends’ trouble. I kept thinking about that statement and wondered if the majority of people who consider themselves stuck at a dead-end job feel the same – in that they can’t get more skills because their employers do not give them more interesting, challenging tasks. (more…)

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