Dead-End Jobs: Are You Suffering From Stockholm Syndrome? - The Passionate Programmer

Just read @chadfowler's again. Good stuff.

Dead-End Jobs: Are You Suffering From Stockholm Syndrome? December 30, 2010 Have you heard of Stockholm Syndrome? It’s a name given to the condition wherein hostages develop positive feelings toward their captors despite being held in negative, unfavorable and even life-threatening conditions. Victims of Stockholm Syndrome will even inexplicably stay with their captors even when given the chance at freedom. Hopefully nobody reading this is literally being held hostage right now. If you are, good luck! For the rest of you, why might I suggest that you are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome? Because employment relationships can manifest themselves in this very way. In the article, Love and Stockholm Syndrome: The Mystery of Loving an Abuser , Dr. Joseph Carver says that the following four situations serve as a foundation for the development of Stockholm Syndrome: <quote> The ...

Full article: http://www.chadfowler.com/2010/12/30/dead-end-jobs-are-yo...