I grew up in pretty severe poverty, the adults around me didn’t work glamorous jobs but they all took pride in doing a good job. Even sanitation jobs, which were pretty common in the family. They would actually say something pretty similar to what the guy wrote - that if you’re going to spend so many hours of your life doing it, it’s taking pride in a job well done, the relationships you have with your colleagues and customers you get to know, and things like that that you connect with emotionally. Spending 50 years doing a job where you try to dissociate emotionally as best you can sounds something like a nightmare, and what would a person who behaves like that be like to work with?

Well, tech is a bit different in that because it uses a computer (and a lot of roles aren't highly monitored, if at all i.e. WFH) you have the choice to do things other than your job.

I imagine most people working with a computer in a corporate role, are spending maybe a few hours of their time actually working, and the rest of their time doing things they actually enjoy doing.

Right; there is an element of satisfaction that comes from doing a job well that is relatively independent of the kind of job it is.

In a way, that kind of enjoyment is actually more important than extrinsic rewards – it actually is your moment-to-moment life.

Which, to be fair, is what Spanos' piece is getting at too.

> Which jobs are you considering no one would want to do?

Not OP but most low-skill, sanitation-related jobs are most likely the best example. There certainly is craftsmanship behind cleaning but it mostly boils down to hard physical labor.

I once had a conversation with a cleaner, she liked it because she could listen to Spotify podcasts all day (she was working as a cleaner in Sweden).

The Spotify part though, isn't part of cleaning, if that makes sense? It happened that she has found an enjoyable aspect to the tasks due to its nature, but not that she specifically searched for that job because it lets her listen to Spotify.

I can confirm this, I know a cleaner like that as well. Additionally the work is not that physically taxing for the most part and there is no struggle involved like in many problem solving jobs. It‘s often poorly paid but that depends a lot on the country.

having health insurance helps

Delivery, call center, government jobs processing some applications or similar, any dirty job, any harmful job etc.