When I got my first few intellectual jobs (Linguistics), I was so PROUD that I was being hired for my brain. (And told more people than I should have, who probably didn't think I should have been as surprised as I was)
Stage Managing in Theater was all about setting up the chairs, being the secretary and making the calls, an assistant, the maid. The Servant.
I would have been lucky to make $70K a year. (Even as the head Stage Manager of Hamilton. Worse, there is NO job security from show to show. Even if I had made it all the way, it would be $2k a week for 20 weeks a year...)
Corporate Work is just as bad in ways, and worse. My manager doesn't want me to write my own reports, he wants to look at my notes and sculpt it into a report of his own.
I was hired for my relationship skills, my degrees, my experience and felt like I was the mistress (Contractor) but now instead of being appreciated for who I am, I'm told that my whole job is to do dishes.
Stage Managing in Theater was all about setting up the chairs, being the secretary and making the calls, an assistant, the maid. The Servant.
I would have been lucky to make $70K a year. (Even as the head Stage Manager of Hamilton. Worse, there is NO job security from show to show. Even if I had made it all the way, it would be $2k a week for 20 weeks a year...)
Corporate Work is just as bad in ways, and worse. My manager doesn't want me to write my own reports, he wants to look at my notes and sculpt it into a report of his own.
I was hired for my relationship skills, my degrees, my experience and felt like I was the mistress (Contractor) but now instead of being appreciated for who I am, I'm told that my whole job is to do dishes.
