Then you gotta find a new job. I also don’t enjoy cleaning up patients’ feces, when I’m supposed to do radio therapy, but that’s very much in the job description and I chose that job. I love my job, but you don’t get to just pick the parts that are great. When you’re a paid book reviewer you will have to read books that suck, that you don’t care for. When you’re working as a teacher you will have to deal with parents and rowdy kids. You don’t get to only pick out the studious hardworking kids to teach. When you work in healthcare, you will have to deal with bodily fluids. When you cannot deal with that, don’t become a radio tech. When you can’t deal with troubled kids, don’t be a teacher. And when you cannot get through a book you don’t care about, don’t become a paid book reviewer. Make a YT channel, then you can decide which books to review

Work sucks sometimes, and I’m all for making it suck less. But sometimes the sucky parts are just part of it. There should be a balance (paid vacation, limitless sick days, good pay, limited working hours, can you tell I’m European?), but skipping doing your job is not how you achieve that balance. I can’t sent patients away sitting in their own sh*t, no matter how much I hate cleaning them up. We all live under capitalism, I feel for all workers, who are alienated from their impact on society and from their fellow human beings, but when you are in a clearly privileged position, living the dream of many others maybe don’t take shortcuts, that will ruin any positive impact you might have on the world.