On a Monday after watching your favorite team get bitch slapped in the Super Bowl, it pays to have a job you love to return to. For the rest of the losers, work sucks. While work has always been touted as something to be proud of, some people don't like it. I know people who hate work and always have. And by the way, hate for work is nothing to be ashamed of. If work is so cool, why is it the first thing people quit doing when they win the lottery or inherit a lot of dough.
When you think about it, the only people who believe in a strong work ethic are employers. Employees only believe in a strong work ethic, when their employer is watching them. Please don't misunderstand, some people like to work. Some people actually love their jobs. But more often than not, those people are doing something they'd do for free. For these people, their work is a labor of love.
People who teach stuff, coach stuff, research stuff, write stuff, play stuff, sing and dance, involved in the arts and sciences, or work with their hands like master chefs and master craftsmen are happy with their work. And consequently, people like this are happy with their lives. They're not rich and famous and more than likely, they never will be. But they're happy just the same. People like this rarely call in sick. And its people like this, who make the rest of us look bad.
Unfortunately, most people's jobs are not a labor of love. Most people's jobs are just laborious. There is no love involved. There is no fun involved. There is no passion involved. There is only the need to earn a living. Few people aspire to be toll booth attendants, TAS agents, WalMart security guards, greeters and cashiers. Few people dream of flipping burgers, selling shoes, cleaning toilets, mopping floors, carrying luggage or worse gigs, like bill collectors. And, you'll be hard pressed to find many happy people changing bed pans and giving sponge baths in nursing homes for a living either.
One would think, the suckier the job, the more it should pay, but for some reason it just don't work that way. To think somebody has to go to work and wipe another person's soiled asshole for minimum wage. Imagine standing on your feet all day checking groceries, stocking shelves or collecting shopping carts for peanuts. Imagine how Manhattan doormen feel schlepping for rich people who don't work at all for tips and chump change. Now that's got to suck big time.
Bottom line: People who work long hours on dead end jobs, for low wages have every reason to hate work because they know they'll never be rich and famous no matter how hard they do it. Most people who hate work, do so because they never expected to have the jobs they have. Life just worked out that way. One minute they're contemplating being an astronaut and the next thing they know, they're sitting in a cubicle selling newspaper subscriptions to blind seniors citizens. Yeah, works sucks. And even more so if you're not Cam Newton this morning. Podcast below!
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