Why work

After a long break i am back to writing something. I have been mentally doing slightly better than before. And I am thankful for whoever that has a been a part of this journey in a good or bad way. But since a long time I am contemplating about work. Why do we really work? What does it mean to work. I am not a psychologist and this is not a self help blog. Its more of penning of my own ideas what i try to do here so I might seem incomprehensible read:

Coming to the title topic of what exactly does work mean. In the few little books I read „sapiens“ being one of them… I read a bit about how human civilisation and economics evolved. Every single individual has contributed something to the society to bring the world to its current level. The ones who didnt contribute in any positive way were always shunned and outcast. And why not… why would you want to work for someone they arent working for you. I am strictly writing here about the able bodied random strangers that we know exist and have no feelings towards. This transactional attitude is slightly relaxed for loved ones and incapable who need more attention. In the big scheme of human society, everyone needs everyone else working for everyone in the society. And my understanding about work is, contributing to the society in some way by solving a problem. You might be passionate about solving the problem, or you might be just interested in the economic satisfaction it brings. But ability to solve a real life problem is what is needed and that is what working is, for me. We need to learn a skill and a discipline to solve this problem… this skill in todays day and age is most often learnt in schools and universities but not necessarily.

My best theory is the following system in career, we use our skill to solve a problem. The transaction is we give time, we get money… our tool is our skill and the output is a solution. So we are actually being paid for our time in proportion to our ability to solve a problem efficiently.

Also, I have come to believe that money, education, material prowess they just magnify what is really inside you. If you are a bad person, money and education will magnify that and make you a worse person. If you are kind, money and educated will make you kinder.

I was watching one episode of shark tank where it was said, where scaleability of business was being discussed. If you keep exchanging your time for money there will be a limitation in how much you earn. This is what job does. But at the other hand it provides stability, of time and income and lifestyle. I have lived as a child of a businessman. And I have come to realise that, a businessman and their family both must accept the restrictions and freedoms that come with it. A businessman will be most unhappy if they dream of having life of an employee. And vice versa obviously. Business normally doesnt know any boundaries. You work at 2 am, and sometimes at work you spend time doing private life stuff. Where as a job defines boundaries and brings predictability more or less.

Now about passion, I am more leaning towards the thought that if you work in the field of passion you, you will need to make a boundary where job starts and where passion and you yourself start. Or maybe I must live the passion so much that its almost meditative to pursue it and the money it brings is immaterial. It does affect the family but thats a compromise you make for working for passion. For example someone who loves coffee, if they work in a coffeehouse, they can either lose interest for coffee because it always reminds them of work and money and 1000 problems, or they love coffee so much that those 1000 problems are never a problem.

At the end I want to say that for an employer you are always a chair that is fulfilling some responsibilities. And they try to treat you as a human but its negatively affecting the money earned. So how to deal with work and passion? The common denominator is always how you are contributing… and the willingness to contribute to the world. And thats what brings real peace and pleasure in working and also progress!!

i hope I wasn't too incomprehensible here. Happy life to you and peaceful healing

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