- 04 Jun 2020 17:37
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Thanks for sharing, as ever, Tainari.
Are we going to have to speak *Canadian* for this?
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Tainari88 wrote:
@ckaihatsu your experience has been mixed and you don't glorify work? I like that attitude. I think people should work but their work should be meaningful and reflect who they are inside and what they enjoy accomplishing. One spends a lot of time working. Make it enjoyable and rewarding. If it is drudgery and unrewarding? it will lead to profound dissatisfaction with life.
I sometimes took jobs for paying bills and sometimes wound up enjoying the job unexpectedly. Sometimes I took jobs I thought I would enjoy and wound up not liking them. Because it was not about what I thought it was about. But I always worked.
My husband had a co-worker who went through very difficult times in her life. Raising three kids as a single mother while going to graduate school and living in a ghetto in NYC and then moving to Colorado and having her daughter commit suicide and getting flesh eating bacteria while not having private insurance and losing all of her savings and going from excellent credit to bad credit. Having domestic violence in her life. Not having the ability to cope with a lot of personal problems. But she told my husband so very true about working in jobs one doesn't find satisfying like it should be for working people....she said to him in Spanish---At the end of the day you work and it is a challenge and a daily test of character, and if you make it through without going crazy or getting fired, you should feel good about it, after all? You are bringing home the food for the family's table. And that is also sacred.
She was right about that one.
Thanks for sharing, as ever, Tainari.
Tainari88 wrote:
@ckaihatsu you have such interesting opinions. I hope you and I can discuss many of your views in depth someday eh?
Are we going to have to speak *Canadian* for this?
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