Working More and Enjoying Life Less
The nature of any significant society is that different people complete different jobs. Inevitably, though, the different jobs people have will cause them to have different lifestyles, due to differences in money, workload and stress levels. A doctor wouldn’t be capable of telling the difference between a Houston contract warehouse and a Houston 3PL, just as a store worker wouldn’t be able to educate the doctor of how to complete a double bypass operation. No doubt the education 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 life we do, or are we naturally pre-disposed to have a certain type 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 currently working in jobs they did not want to do when they were kids, thinking of how they would be living their lives. Many have also had an education in an arena different to the place they are working in, and most of us have dreams of some day quitting 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 things are. Everyday we’re given a new piece of technology that costs more to get, that we’ll need to work harder and for longer to pay for, and that will inevitably break down 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 workload less, or made our work easier?
You might think that things like machinery and vehicles have made the jobs of people like loggers or those doing physical jobs much easier, and they have to a certain extent. But the people who use these items don’t see any gains, they still have to work for the same length of time. The benefit is only seen by the bosses, who gain the profits of the increasing amount of work that can be completed. If a machine were invented that made something easier, can you see 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 ourselves 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 essential. How much cash we can make should be at the very end of the line, with human emotions at the front.