Working More and Enjoying Life Less
The nature of any significant society is that different people have different jobs. Inevitably, of course, the different jobs people have will cause them to have different lifestyles, due to differences in income, workload and stress levels. A doctor wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a Houston contract warehouse and a Houston 3PL, just as a store worker wouldn’t be able to inform the doctor of how to complete a triple bypass operation. No doubt the intelligence level of the doctor would be greater and the physical ability of the store man would be more. But is it our job that causes us to have the lifestyle we do, or are we naturally pre-disposed to have a certain kind of job?
This question has an underlying premise which may be ill-informed. It assumes that we are all in occupations which we like, which can be safely assumed to not be the case. Many people are presently working in jobs they did not want to do when they were kids, thinking of how they would be carrying out their lives. Many have also received education in an arena different to the place they are working in, and most of us have dreams of some day leaving our jobs and doing what we really want to.
Although we live in a so-called advanced civilization, these problems have never been tackled to any significant extent, we simply see them as the way the world is. Everyday we’re given a new piece of technology that costs more money, that we’ll need to work harder and for longer to pay for, and that will inevitably crash and cause more stress like every other product we own. Isn’t it about time scientists set out to create a product that made us have to work less, or made our work easier?
You might think that items like machinery and vehicles have made the jobs of people like loggers or those doing physical jobs much easier, and they have to some extent. But the individuals who use these items don’t see any gains, they still have to work for the same amount of time. The reward is only seen by the bosses, who get the profits of the increasing amount of work that can be completed. If a product were invented that made something easier, can you imagine a boss allowing staff to work less due to the new invention?
The reason no thing that actually reduces workload is invented is because such a device would hurt the system we currently have set up, or at least those on the top of the system. If we had more time to pay attention and didn’t have to work so much, we might start to begin seeing areas of life that are freely available to all. This would be very bad for the economy!
It’s time to take a look around and realize the things in our lives that are and are not important. How much cash we can make should be at the very bottom of the line, with human relationships at the front.
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