I have been working at my current job for more than one year now and I have just become a permanent employee, which basically means that I have no predetermined end date at work. I work in a psychiatric ward as an assistant nurse specialized in psychiatry. Another word for that might be mental health nurse, keeper or whatever. It seems to have many different names around the world.
I help, support and treat people with mental illness. It can be anything from a minor depression to someone with panic attacks, from eating disorders to people who are actively trying to commit suicide.
- I am there for all of them.
That being said, I have always been a "people's person" in that sense, and my "mission in life" is- and has always been to support others and help them live their lives to the fullest. That's one of the reasons for me to truly love my job. It's weird, it's not often you hear someone telling you that, that they truly love their job, but it's the truth. I wish I could work less though, but even if I would end up being a billionarie at some point, I would never quit my job. I would just reduce the hours I work.
Long story short, we've recently got a salary increase. It's something we get once per year. It's sort of based on the performance and how well you are doing, but it's also about how much ass you kiss.
I don't wipe my bosses ass after she has taken a fat dump and I don't lick the ass clean either.. I'm not there for my boss or my colleagues. I'm at work for the patients. The fuynny thing here is that I didn't get as huge salary increase as some others, but I didn't get the smallest either. I was somewhere in the top actually. Like top 5 or something, which is pretty good if you ask me.
I got a salary increase of 1700 SEK per month, which is ~200 USD. A couple of others got 2100 SEK (250 USD) while some others got between 1100 SEK and 1600 SEK, (131/191 USD).
The funny part, or not so funny, it's actually more tragic, is that people complain. Most of them complain, but it's not the actual amount they complain about, it's the difference between them and others they complain about. They compare themselves with others, they talk shit behind peoples backs and they try to point out all the good things they are doing while trying to diminish their colleagues.
Some of them grouped up and have verbally assaulted more than once, trying to diminish me and the things I do, they're talking down on me and they are trying to make me feel less good about myself or the things I do. They are desperate to point fingers at me whenever I do something they would've have done differently.. It's become a utter shitstorm, just because I happened to get more than them.
This is bullying amongst adult people. This is professional nurses & specialists who works with mental illness. All of us work with people who suffers from mental illness, and we have bullying at work which is one of the things that actually leads to self-harm and depression.
This obviously affects the morale and environment. Some people have started to talk about quitting their jobs. Others have just started to talk a lot of shit about some colleagues. I happen to be in the middle of this shitstorm.
So while this is in real life, at work, being a professional amongst other professionals, this happens here as well. On Hive and its communities. People compare themselves with others. We have newcomers feeling ignored and overlooked which translates into feelings of despair and being trapped in a bubble of "bad luck". We have more established users who feels that things are unfair because they put in a lot of time and effort just to get a fraction of what some other, more established users are getting.
- At the end of the day, it's all about money.
People argue about them doing more for others, more for Hive and the growth than others, and they are not rewarded for their work in the extent they think they should be rewarded.. Yet again about money, even though it's in form of rewards and crypto.
Here's the thing though, something I have said multiple times throughout my time on the blockchain. Life is not "fair" in the sense that everyone gets the same for the same effort put in. Some will always have more "luck" than others and earn more than you..
- But it's also the other way around.
You are most likely being rewarded more than others as well. Do you want others to constantly compare your efforts or the quality of your content with themselves and the quality of their content..?
Do you want others to talk shit about you because you have more "luck" than others and because you pour your heart, blood, sweat and tears into your creations or your work?
At the end of the day, it's not up to you to decide how much you are being paid at work or how much rewards you should get from your content. Others decides that.
What you can do, is to make sure that you put in 110% in everything you do. That you push yourselves to your limits and that you contribute as much as possible. Both in real life and on Hive.
That's basically the reason for me to have been one of the people who got the highest salary increase, even though I have a lot less experience than many of my colleagues. I often do more than others. I often do things better than others, but I don't see my work as a competition..
- I do the things I do because I love it and it seems to pay off.