Older generation baffled by the idea of job satisfaction

ANYONE over 50 is perplexed by younger people’s delusions that work should be anything other than a thankless slog endured in order to buy things.

From Boomers to Generation X, workers cannot grasp the concept that employment should be fulfilling in its own right rather than a soul-destroying way to acquire money for life’s essentials, like cigarettes and bingo.

Martin Bishop, aged 86, said: “Being reimbursed for the valuable time you’re sacrificing to scanning shopping or welding metal is the whole point of a job.

“Meanwhile fun things, like drinking five pints or betting on the horse racing, tend to cost you money rather than earning it. It’s how you tell the difference. Why would you enjoy work? What’s wrong with you?”

64-year-old Susan Traherne said: “The only times I can remember