Personally, I’ve always loved the process of taking things apart, understanding how they work and putting them back together. I turned that into a degree in mechanical engineering and eventually a career in power plant operations. Couldn’t be happier with my work than I currently am. Its WORK but I don’t hate it and I feel like I’m doing something important.
I’ve always been unable to ignore bullshit from management at work. It’s cost me jobs and promotions in the past, but now I work for a trade union, where the ability and desire to argue with bosses is a benefit rather than a liability.
Unions are a good thing, unfortunately I’ve only had bad experiences in my professional life.
Unions are made up of human beings, and unfortunately most human beings suck. Unions are the only way we know to fix bad workplaces though.
I know, I like/support them conceptually and hate them in anecdotal experience.