Monday, November 3, 2008

Jobs and purpose

There has been many complaints by employers that people, the young generation especially, but all of us, are not being loyal to the company we work for. Many of us are sifting through job after job, trying to find one that suits us just right. Although to most of us it is obvious that if the work place were more loyal to us we would not seek other employment. If that job we had at a fast food place when we were in high school offered to pay us at a rate that we could live very comfortably on, we would have stayed much longer. And if they had offered a percentage of their profits, well, even a tiny percent would be millions. But they always like to keep that money for someone else. So we move on, although a great many of us would have moved on anyway, in the search for something more. Something that made us feel useful. Perhaps we should not blame all the companies of the jobs we had to quit because the money and conditions were crap. We should thank them for helping us to move on to greater things. Naturally we would if we knew what those greater things were, if we were able to feel like we accomplished something, like we have a purpose, but we are still looking.

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