March 28, 2024

Here’s Why Emotional Labor Isn’t Easier Than Physical Labor, But Will Always Pay Far Better

No one will pay you to do physical labor anymore. This is the end of the industrial age. This recession is a forever recession. For our entire life, my grandparents and my parents got a job, did what they were told and retired. I was born in 1976, and I’m seeing the death of that way of living.

Good people used to be able to make above average pay for, at best, average work. Those days are over big time!

This blog post is about the end of physical labor as we know it, and the rise of emotional labor. Read this blog post and make the necessary applications to your life. Then comment with your thoughts. This post is continued from yesterday’s Are You Afraid Of The Emotional Labor? post
 

Louie is my step dad. Here we are at Louie's 71st birthday party. The wisest thing he ever said to me was, "Junior (he always calls me "Junior") the best advice I can give you is you better OWN YOUR OWN DREAM. It's a ton of work and often scary as hell, but no one else will ever care as much as you do about reaching that dream.

Louie is my step dad. The wisest thing he ever said to me was, “Junior (he always calls me “Junior”) the best advice I can give you is you better OWN YOUR OWN DREAM. It’s a ton of work and often scary as hell, but no one else will ever care as much as you do about reaching that dream.”


 

You Can’t Build Your Life Around Physical Labor (Anymore)

 
You can’t build your life around physical labor. Not anymore. You will not receive the kind of pay that you can build your life around. You won’t get paid to dig holes, carry boxes or swing a hammer. You’re getting paid for something else.

Wait! I know what you’re saying…

You’re saying, “Eric? Actually, people DO get paid to dig holes; people DO get paid to carry boxes; people DO get paid to swing a hammer.”

Yes I know, but that’s not really what they’re getting paid to do. They’re getting paid to do something that someone else doesn’t want to do, and that kind of work is a race to the bottom. Because that kind of physical labor is cheap and getting cheaper, and you have more dignity for yourself than that.

No one grows up and says, “I want to be a furniture mover.”

No one grows up and says, “I want to dig ditches or lay tar for the county road commission.”

Getting paid for doing what you don’t want to do is called “Physical Labor,” and it’s a bitch. It’s hard living.
 

Emotional Labor Isn’t Easier Than Physical Labor, But It Will Pay Better

 
Emotional labor isn’t necessarily any easier. In fact, in some ways even more difficult. We’re rusty after living through 80 years of the kind of brain washing that told us we could do what’s never been done, win what’s never been won and be “all that we can be” just by going to school, following the rules and getting a good job.
 

Here's Lucan. He's my son. I will have to counter what the public schools are currently teaching. Our public schools aren't teaching this. Our public schools are still stuck in the old paradigm: work hard, follow the rules, go to college, get a good job. We are the new teachers - me and you. We have to shoulder the responsibility of teaching that the real work is Emotional Labor. Teach it by doing it. We're here to help.

Our public schools aren’t teaching this. Our public schools are still stuck in the old paradigm: work hard, follow the rules, go to college, get a good job. We are the new teachers – me and you. We have to shoulder the responsibility of teaching that the real work is Emotional Labor. Teach it by doing it. We’re here to help.


 
Emotional labor is the courage to not believe what you’ve been told. It’s creating your own path. It starts with the act of having a conversation that might be difficult. Emotional labor is the hard work of digging deep inside yourself and producing an idea that scares you.
 

Have You Been Duping Yourself, Or Just Dragging Your Feet

 
You cannot afford to dupe yourself anymore. You can’t just pay someone a lot of money to create a website you don’t know how use; you can’t take sterile pictures of your products; you can’t sit back and lurk all day on Facebook like a voyeur.

You’re just duping yourself if you think that stuff is going to bring you success. You have to do the work, and the real work is emotionally laborious.

You can’t just coast through your day with the mindless job you have (or don’t have anymore) doing neither physical labor or emotional labor and think you’re ever going to get anywhere.

There’s not going to be anything left.

The high paid people that used to operate the Kodak factory, or the paper mill, or the coal mine don’t have anymore money to pay for physical labor. Not anymore. Those jobs are GONE.
 

Here’s Your New Job Description. Get Moving!

 
Right now, more than EVER, your new job is to confront your fear. Your job is to do the emotional labor, and look fear directly in the eye and realize it might not be easy, but it is important.

That’s where me and Ann and the entire 80/20 Marketing team come into play. We have this program called Daily Marketing Coach. The Daily Marketing Coach is an exclusive training, coaching and mentorship platform that helps people better marketing their businesses online. We help people confront their fear by providing security in the how to aspects of building an asset that YOU OWN.

Learn More About Daily Marketing Coach Here

About Eric Walker


Eric is an 80/20 Marketing staff member and marketing collaborator. He spends his days writing content and copy for a marketing purpose. Eric is an optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. If you have a question, and/or would like to communicate with Eric directly, email Eric@8020MarketingInc.com

Comments

  1. The 80 years of learning the wrong thing…you are absolutely right. Have you read Seth Godin’s new book the Dream Killers? It’s all about how public education has turned our generations into automatons….and the scary prospect of breaking away from what we have always known.

  2. Gregory Watts says:

    I never looked at it that way; but yes it is emotional labour that we must perform in order to be successful in this new world economy. I’m always running into someone who was just laid-off from his/her manufacturing job. I used to be a factory worker, but I got out of that in the mid 1990’s. It is sad that most people I meet are not willing to confront the fact that the industrial age is over; and that there is a shift towards entrepreneurship.

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