How to make the best of Life and Employment

A dedicated military officer worked through his lunch break in order to complete work urgently needed by his high-ranking superior officer. When his colleagues returned from lunch, they found him slumped over the work on his desk—dead.

Less than two hours later, his fellow officers were stunned when their superior telephoned and said: “It is a shame about but I need a replacement by tomorrow morning!” It caused onlookers to wonder, did the work performed by the officer constitute his only value to his superior?

This true experience highlights a reality that a person’s worth is often measured exclusively by his or her usefulness to his employer. With today’s high pressure world of global market where competitions abound and mass production of goods and services, many feel inadequate to look for job either because of high demands of employee or their unsatisfactory this might lead one to ask: Do I live to work, or do I work to live? What aspects of my life am I sacrificing for my job?

Making Wise Choices

Two of what some consider the most important decisions in life are often made impulsively, first the choice of a marriage mate and the selection of employment. Both employment and marriage were once regarded as something permanent. So careful consideration was given to the selection of each. Often, advice from older friends or parents who has our best interest at heart was sought.

These days, however, many seem to choose marriage mates almost exclusively on the basis of physical attractiveness, with the reservation that if things don’t work out, another partner can be sought. Similarly, many select employment essentially on its perceived glamour, without consideration of possible negatives. Or at least negative possibilities are quickly dismissed with the thought, ‘I’ll be able to handle them.

Can people also be lured into accepting a legitimate job offer and then end up in a situation in which they feel enslaved? This very thing has happened! Some companies, for example, offer remarkable luxuries for the benefit of their workers. These may include dining rooms for use by family and friends, free car service and dry cleaning, dentists on site, free use of gymnasiums, and subsidized dining at expensive restaurants.

“One company has even paid for a dating agency for its overstretched staff,” reports journalist Richard Reeves. But beware! He explains: “These firms introduce schemes to make your life easier, on just one condition—that you hand it over to them; that you work 18-hour days and at weekends, eat, exercise, play, even sleep in the office in the service of their profits.” It seem appetizing right? With all these comfort provided ask yourself.

Is The Job Worthwhile?

An ancient proverb reads: “A living dog is better off than a dead lion.” (Such a proverb raises the question, is my job worth my life or my well-being? In answer, many have reappraised their situation and have found a way to provide adequately for themselves as well as for their family if they have one and also to live a happy, having the right job will leads to meaningful life.

Admitted things don’t always turn out the way we want and the need to get a job for life necessity become imperative but if our search of employment is governed by work ethic, employers will be inclined to hire us   truly, doing this often calls for modesty and may require deciding what one’s needs actually are, rather than what one’s nonessential wants are. This aspect is important because it helps to have a balance view of what you want and need and in deciding what type of employment is most suitable for you, those who are seeking position and prestige may reject more moderate choices and even consider foolish those who choose them. 

But what really is important in life? Have you stopped lately to consider this? In today’s world where employment and it prospect is never free with it uncertainties, things may get worst with the current unstable economy that we face.

Sadly, women are in constant target of this, in most cases their employer often advertisements enticing jobs and they normally respond to it with the promise that a beautiful life will result from it. Upon their arrival in the work place to discover that what seem to be so good turns out not been good after all. Life in effect turns worse than the life that they had before. This appalling kind of modern day slavery is a “scourge that won’t go away,” according to a World Press Review article.

As human we need to have a balance view of work and recreation because doing this will brings us satisfaction. We all deserve to be happy and that can only be achieved by balancing work and recreation, this will also ensure longer lasting life, enjoy life, cheers!!!

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