Everyone of us have a job that we do to earn the money we want to spend for our needs. Some of us are owners of companies or businesses which is quite different from working as an employee. The jobs we do are different to each other. Some fields are better than the other, some positions are better than another. Some benefit you better while other's don't sufficiently. You may have various perspectives about the job you do. But the truth is that the jobs we do often keep us restricted and limit us to a very narrow routine.
Good old days when most of us used to have our farms and used earn our own living through self employment methods we had a great freedom of life. Besides, the families then often were very big and many relatives used to live together in the same farm. Even if it was not the case families had enough members who could take the lead when a member of a family was unavailable.
You had the freedom to decide if you are going to cultivate paddy or wheat this season. If you decided not to do so, you could still survive with the stocks you had for many months. You could decide when to work when not to. When to take a day off or a week off and when not to. You were often at home and not on the road. You had enough time to spend with your kids and to admire the beauty of the nature.
You can visit a funeral house or someone sick at any given time. You can take enough day off if you felt you are not well enough or even if you are not in a good mood. But the jobs we do now don;t let you that freedom. Remember the days of slavery?
Slaves used to restricted to a certain area of a farm. They used to do a particular job all day long for almost everyday of their life. Some of them were chained and had lot of limitations to free movement. They feared their bosses like cattle fear their master. They worked like horses and ate like beggars. Don't you think in most cases the jobs today are pretty much similar to slavery?
For an example, look at the access cards in use that require you to stay in a building the whole day and the need to follow time and attendance requirements. look at the computer that you are chained to. See how difficult it is to take a day off even if you badly wants it. Look at the dress code you must wear. Sometimes uniforms that is like you don't look like a slave unless you wear it. Don't you find the jobs today are limiting you so much that you forget to live?
Your job requires you to do everything about the company but nothing about your own life. You come to office 8 or 9 Am and leave it by 5 or 6 PM. Sometimes late evening depending on the job you do. To get to home you drive another hour or more on traffic. Eat some quick snack or instant food. Sometimes you have to work on weekends too. For some you are bound to answer your phone 24/7. Reply mails 24/7. Now what is this?
You are working straight 8 hours in most offices. Still you get paid something in return that is marginally enough to run your family for a month. You are sleeping roughly 8 hours and working another 8 hours. You are left with 6 more hours in life to do something for yourself. Often another 2 hours at least spend on getting ready and reaching your office. You will roughly be left with 4 hours a day to do everything else. This is less than 25% of time from your daily life. Now you will figure out you have only lived less than 1/4th of your life for yourself.
What will you do with this 4 hours a day left for you? Reading Books ? Watch TV? go out? travel? What can you really do with 4 hours? Gardening?
We all have dreams and goals for our life. We often die pursuing these dreams. We work hard to earn a living & die while earning to live. When you look back we never ever really lived though we thought working will let us live a better life later.
When you have the courage, strength and the energy to do things you always wanted to do, GO FOR IT. Take risks and have faith that you can succeed one way or another. Money is not everything. Sometimes, money is exactly what stops us having fun and enjoying our life. Maybe earning half of what you earn now and having all the time you need would satisfy you make you truly happy than earning a big salary doing a job that stresses you too much.
What is your opinion about your job? Do you think most jobs today treat employees like slaves? It makes your life monotonous? How do you manage life's freedom and choices with the job you do?
Good old days when most of us used to have our farms and used earn our own living through self employment methods we had a great freedom of life. Besides, the families then often were very big and many relatives used to live together in the same farm. Even if it was not the case families had enough members who could take the lead when a member of a family was unavailable.
You had the freedom to decide if you are going to cultivate paddy or wheat this season. If you decided not to do so, you could still survive with the stocks you had for many months. You could decide when to work when not to. When to take a day off or a week off and when not to. You were often at home and not on the road. You had enough time to spend with your kids and to admire the beauty of the nature.
You can visit a funeral house or someone sick at any given time. You can take enough day off if you felt you are not well enough or even if you are not in a good mood. But the jobs we do now don;t let you that freedom. Remember the days of slavery?
Slaves used to restricted to a certain area of a farm. They used to do a particular job all day long for almost everyday of their life. Some of them were chained and had lot of limitations to free movement. They feared their bosses like cattle fear their master. They worked like horses and ate like beggars. Don't you think in most cases the jobs today are pretty much similar to slavery?
For an example, look at the access cards in use that require you to stay in a building the whole day and the need to follow time and attendance requirements. look at the computer that you are chained to. See how difficult it is to take a day off even if you badly wants it. Look at the dress code you must wear. Sometimes uniforms that is like you don't look like a slave unless you wear it. Don't you find the jobs today are limiting you so much that you forget to live?
Your job requires you to do everything about the company but nothing about your own life. You come to office 8 or 9 Am and leave it by 5 or 6 PM. Sometimes late evening depending on the job you do. To get to home you drive another hour or more on traffic. Eat some quick snack or instant food. Sometimes you have to work on weekends too. For some you are bound to answer your phone 24/7. Reply mails 24/7. Now what is this?
You are working straight 8 hours in most offices. Still you get paid something in return that is marginally enough to run your family for a month. You are sleeping roughly 8 hours and working another 8 hours. You are left with 6 more hours in life to do something for yourself. Often another 2 hours at least spend on getting ready and reaching your office. You will roughly be left with 4 hours a day to do everything else. This is less than 25% of time from your daily life. Now you will figure out you have only lived less than 1/4th of your life for yourself.
What will you do with this 4 hours a day left for you? Reading Books ? Watch TV? go out? travel? What can you really do with 4 hours? Gardening?
We all have dreams and goals for our life. We often die pursuing these dreams. We work hard to earn a living & die while earning to live. When you look back we never ever really lived though we thought working will let us live a better life later.
When you have the courage, strength and the energy to do things you always wanted to do, GO FOR IT. Take risks and have faith that you can succeed one way or another. Money is not everything. Sometimes, money is exactly what stops us having fun and enjoying our life. Maybe earning half of what you earn now and having all the time you need would satisfy you make you truly happy than earning a big salary doing a job that stresses you too much.
What is your opinion about your job? Do you think most jobs today treat employees like slaves? It makes your life monotonous? How do you manage life's freedom and choices with the job you do?
1 comments:
I have recently been thinking of this subject. I own my own business and work every day of the year. Not only that but my job also ties me to my premises, if I am lucky I may get out to do the shopping once a month. I long to go sit in some woods, to feel the earth and universe, to reconnect. I think your view of pastural history is a little romantic however I take your meaning. Time for change, for courage and risk or my life will be spent with only regrets for what I have not done.
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