Quotes About Low-status

Looking after children is a low-status occupation. It is isolating, frequently boring, relentlessly demanding and exhausting.

the people with boring, low-status jobs just wanted to collapse in front of the television when they got home. Why would that be? "When work is enriching, life is fuller, and that spills over into the things you do outside work," he said to me. But "when it's deadening," you feel "shattered at the end of the day, just shattered.