oct 16th h.w

The article “Exploring the Managed Heart “By Arlie Russel Hochschild  is about the comparison a child laborer who works in a wallpaper factory and the work of a flight attendant. Both workers are used as “instrumental labor”. They have to show both their physical and looks as strength to their job. These types of jobs show emotional labor.

Emotional labors according to these passages are based on to have to hide your actual real feeling and put your job before yourself. For example, working as a flight attendant you are trained to do your job in a perfect matter and look a certain way. This job changes your whole outlook it’s like you’re a whole different person including mindset as well which is true. You can’t show expression which can affect your customers negatively. Being a factory worker you have to set aside you feeling as well and get your work done no matter what. not letting the fact that you are a young boy and get no respect from people who have higher job positions Both jobs are similar because it consists of pretending. The connection of both jobs is to not be yourself and to fulfill the position you are working for.

I think the flight attendant job is worse because it has more of pretending to be someone you not. Being a flight attending you have to dress speak and act according to the job. Being a different person that you can’t even relate to and having to keep people happy knowing you’re not happy I believe is hard. Even if this job is not as physical as a factory worker it is emotionally and mentally as one. This job being a flight attendant is alienated because you have to set aside your real personality to create another one. Around this time period you did not get as much respect either having this job title. You would have to be who you really are to get treated with the respect you deserve or at all. How would you feel flip flopping from personality to personality? I believe that alienations.