Work Thoughts

Modern life requires that we spend a large portion of our waking hours working for an employer. Despite what we are told while children most of us will not grow up and find enjoyable work, the best we should realistically hope for is a career that we find tolerable, something that isn't too painful or physically draining. There just aren't enough dream jobs in society to fulfill the long waiting list of dreamers.

Employment should not be a defining feature of our lives; who you are is a different matter from what you do. I personally hold a strict policy on this matter: once I leave my job in the afternoon I do not think of work until I reenter the office the next day. When you already spend 40 hours somewhere being paid why should you donate your personal time, without pay, to the same place? I see this as a waste of time that could be better spent thinking about other subjects.

Even while at work we can find solitude from the conditions at hand since though we work, live, and play with other people we spend every waking moment within the privacy of our own minds and thoughts. I think this is an easy fact to forget, most of us fall into the trap of thought-causation every now and then, believing that conditions outside of us must dictate what happens inside of us. Realizing that we alone control our own reactions, thoughts, and thus attitudes towards life and work is a necessary component, I would wager, of success.