When I think of the term or meaning of work I get a little upset. I began working at the mere age of 13 acting as if i was a legal age of 18. Working at this young age was bascially a choice for me and the fun part was actually getting away with working with grown ups and i was a child. The work was easy and the money was great! Work is just that work. How you do it or apply it is up to the individual. I am greatful that I was shown at an early age the values and meaning of work. Being raised in the south working in the hot country fields just to sell a bushel of peas for five bucks was no where as good as working a nine to five and recieveing a full paycheck. Sometimes much more than others. As i got older and realized that working was not for fun anymore, it is to pay bills nd put food on the table. So now my feelings about this thing they call work has drastically changed alot. But I am still greatful that i know what a good hard days work is like. When i close my eyes and picture someone working there are diffent images that comes to mind because im thinking about those whom I know that have jobs. My cousin, who works for the airline, i see here feuling the planes and complaing about smelling like jet fuel. Myself for instance, driving the fortklift loading and unloading the trucks so that people can get their mail on time, its makes me feel good to know that my hardwork is keeping a smile on somebody else face. Every day life situtaions we are faced with the feeling of working too much or thinking why do we have to work so much, because society has driven us to have these type of feeelings and emotions. If you dont work you dont eat that a common phrase that my granddad used and the more he said it the more i believed it.
Without work, how will we survive/ A particular thing has to be done, whtever that thing is its still a from of working. If you do this, for this than that can be done but only for a significnt amout of something. ie..money, clothes, food and possbily shelter for the poverish person who have yet to aquire a stable life form. Again work is work, whatever you put in you hope to benefit from it.
People look at work differently...some work harder than others just to keep a roof over thier heads when you have others who are hardly working doing nothing and they have any and everything they can get thier hands on. Society plays a huge factor in the way our social classes differ and view work. All classes are taught diferently and there are different categories in which they are viewed. You have people in the south who tends to farms and live stock working hard from sun up to sun down and gets a little abouve minimium wage if that, and turn around you have the bankers and brokers ans real estate agents putting in the same hours and getting three figures a year.
Again, work to me is just that work. The only more productive way of thinking work can change is to become your own boss and make your on rules while having others work for you.
the fact that you mention work as just a job is very true because its something that has to be done because that's just how life is. very true statements and althought its really sad, some people do recieve more then others because of their positions. (although their jobs are just as important)
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement about farmers who work from before sunrise and after sunset don't recieve the same income incomparison to the bank officials, brokers, etc.. who put in long hours as well but get paid very well. I'm from a rural county and the farmers still get up at the crack of dawn feed their animals and get out into the field way before the bankers get up and catch the cta but they do it to survive just like quoted from your grandfather, "If you don't work you don't eat."
ReplyDeleteIt's true if we come to think of it, some people work a lot harder than other's and receive less for what they do just because of the position of the job or themselves. I never knew what it meant to work, I thought receiving an allowance every week was enough for me. When I started to work though and obviously received more money I thought I was rich and wanted to spend all of it carelessly. I was very wrong though, school and other things require me to take care of my paychecks because I need it to pay bills sadly. I agree with you when you talk about the positions of jobs, I can say that I work hard now, my job requires me to be moving around all the time, and I don't get paid enough for what I do. However, I know people in my job that their position just requires them to stand around for a few hours and they get paid a lot more than I do, and I don't think that's fair, but like you say to be somebody you have to work for it.
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