Some people claim that workers are more satisfied when they have many different types of tasks to do. It may be true that, on average, modern people are willing to explore their potential skills. But I believe it is an exaggeration to say doing various jobs can bring gratification to employees. Or even it does, that only happens to those most passive, aimless workers who do not know what type of tasks they should concentrate on.

To begin with, doing similar tasks can help people become accomplished. Admittedly, workers continue doing tasks that are essentially the same. After a while they may get boring with the works. In the long term, however, workers can gain more expertise by dealing with repetitive tasks. For example, my sister, a painter, has been keeping drawing pictures on her digital panel after entering the company. Meanwhile, some of her colleagues have been painting pictures in different ways. After a few months, my sister became an expert on digital painting, while her co-workers were still ordinary in each method of painting. Therefore, concentrating on a certain type of jobs can make workers more skillful.

Additionally, doing similar types of tasks let workers have less stress. People can address the problem fast if they continually face the same type of it. People who deal with various types of tasks have to spend plenty of time on learning new things. As a result, they rarely fulfill tasks with a high quality. And because of the increased workload, they often feel exhausted and suffer from a huge psychological strain. On the contrary, employees who often do similar tasks perform flawlessly and efficiently, so they are under less pressure. Thus, people can be more enjoyable when they focus on similar tasks.

Needless to say, both working styles can bring people a sense of achievement. But based on above reasons, in my opinion, I can get higher job satisfaction by concentrating on similar tasks.