Looking to work or looking to help?
When you are looking for a job, what are you really looking for? Are you looking for money, benefits, time away from the house, or an opportunity to sit in A/C? Is your intent to defraud your employer, maybe make some new friends, or maybe just to have someone to go to lunch with every day? Our culture seems to believe or is taught at least that working for someone has to be work. We must sacrifice and labor in order to receive our compensation. We must cater and conform to their activities to best serve the company. We are then rewarded with promissory notes, time off for good behaviour and sickness. You were told that in order to do well, that you had to give up who you were to better serve the company and be profitable. While the truth of the matter is that most successful people are that way because of who they are and they did not give themselves to some cause that can never be greater than a person. Causes may endure, but people live each day, alive and being greater by the moment. You prepare for all of this through 18 years of preparation, education and training. You entire goal is centered around the accumulation of debt, otherwise known as wealth in this country, and filling your house with stuff that is marketed as critical for happiness and the image of success. I’m sure it didn’t start out that way. There was something that you found interesting in life and that gave you some satisfaction when you did it. It could be creating, helping, figuring, acting, moving, feeling, vocalizing, or being. Pursuing some truth through action. Finding meaning for your existence. You wanted to be something when you grew up. The trick of that is that you are always growing up. From the very beginning, you were who you were on the inside. You just needed to convince others and get some more understanding before you could act competently with other people seeking to do the same thing you wanted to. Maybe their reasons are different, but the actions are similar. Some aspect is theirs and others are yours. You maybe wanted to help out where you could. You sought out groups, families, communities, public organizations or national entities whose realm fit in with your desires. You might have wanted to account for some lacking element of your life. Whatever the reason, you find your passion eventually and act on it. Don’t give up on finding it if you haven’t found it yet. Keep trying. Passions are not jobs or work. Passions are living and joy. When you find yours, as they say, “You’ll never work another day in your life”.
