Why is “work life” or “career” perceived to be so miserable?
As I have said before, we arrive naked, die naked, with nothing to take along…. then why so much angst for the interim journey?
We are ‘made to’ attend school, classes, tuitions and all the while the idea is drilled into us that if we don’t study and ‘become something’ we have wasted our life…… What life is wasted? That rotten, naked to naked journey?
We are pushed into a guilt complex that if we don’t become a Doctor, Engineer (Computers) or a CA our entire life has been worthless. (Or atleast that was the view in India some years ago)….. Come on, the above guys make up at most 1% of the world’s population....... So don’t the rest ‘live’?
And we are first made to think that if our life is not enhanced by a Smart phone, a Tab, a wired and enhanced Hub, a router, lights that turn on upon entry, music that plays as we saunter through rooms, then we have not ‘made it’. And then we become such slaves to these gadgets, that life without it seems handicapped. Lastly, if we decide to not be a slave to these gadgets, either we are made to feel inferior or ‘lacking’.
Why all this furore? Because, your mind monkey fears your freedom. So this enslavement of your thoughts and enhancement of your likes and dislikes.
Not once are you allowed to think: naked come , naked go, let me enjoy the journey.
Not once will you be allowed to say, by the society: I shall be the monk who sold his Porsche.
So all of us are forced into a Job pattern approved by the society. A Job which involves a lot of money maybe, but not exactly what you dreamt of when you were a kid.
When you were a kid, you dreamed of becoming a pilot, a train engine driver, a fireman or postman.
And what exactly do you do just now?
Push some papers around, up and down the ladder, with your signature and ‘remarks’. Papers that imply some exchange of funds (on paper) from here to there, or some assets (on paper) from here to there. Papers that imply some sales figures of having sold some Tablets or some BlueBerries.
Or if you were one of the really ‘lucky ones’ your job involves holding ‘figure crunching’ and ‘pep session’ meeting everyday….. Meetings which involve words like: thinking out of the box/bracket, comprehensive team push tactics, simultaneous client-seller synergy !!!! ………. What goobeldy gook, what utter crap with words……. A straightforward business involves selling to a buyer, what he needs, in the most ethical way, with a profit for yourself.
It does not involve constant talks of ‘profit margins’ and ‘sales incentives’.
It does not involve fooling someone else.
But most of you know that your job is just that.
And so you hate your job. Because you inherently know that your job has no purpose, it is useless. You are just doing it for the fat pay packet it gives you. You are doing it so that you can now ‘maintain’ the lifestyle of Pods and Pads and Tablets and Hubs and Bose sound and Mercs and cooks and maids…. With a Mahabaleshwar vacation…….. hahahahaha…… You pimped your own self.
Honestly….. tell me one answer straight… does your job make any practical difference to anyone’s life anywhere? …….Seriously, even the slightest, practical positive difference?
If your answer was No……THAT is why you hate your job….. You didn’t drive the trains that you dreamed as a kid, you didn’t save someone’s life….. You are just pushing paper.
Do something, some activity that adds a sparkle to someone’s life, preferably a stranger. DO some work that involves physical activity and enhances the life of fellow human beings.
Then you wont hate your ‘work’.
Or better, learn a education that allows you a work and career that enhances the life of humans beings, your fellow beings.
I did. I save eyes everyday, I restore vision everyday. I do most of it without any monetary consideration. I love what I do, all day long. This is what I dreamed as a kid.
Learn a work that you love and enhances lives of others. You will start loving your job.
The promise of the Soul Healer.
