Dear All,
Is working an innate necessity for you?
I have experienced a strange tendency that people (mainly young people) try to avoid work. Chiefly physical work is avoided but not even real brain work is preferred.
There are some countries where all the physical work is done by emigrants or economic refugees. Light industry and other industrial branches have been totally liquidated in EU and so destroyed the structure of production.
Have you observed similar phenomena? If yes, what may be the causes of this not “normal” changes?
One of our finest poets wrote:
“To work only accurately, nicely as the star walks on the sky it is worth like that.”
However, he wrote it originally:
“Although, somebody else profits from your work, to work only accurately, nicely as the star walks on the sky it is worth like that .”
Dear Dongqin, Andras, Kuldeep and all, I agree with Dongqin and some of you, that physical work is good for relieving stress caused by mental work. Yesterday (Sunday), I completed the first draft of a paper. (Andras, you won't like this; I had to include 2 other persons' names because their students took part as respondents, but I worked on it alone. If they are asked, and they can't defend the paper, it will just show they are rather ignorant.)
After the work of analyzing, applying and synthesizing previous results, and writing my conclusion, I was mentally exhausted. I had 1 hour of jogging cum brisk walk, but that wasn't enough. So I got out the long handled cobweb brush and removed the cobwebs in my apartment - satisfied! (My apartment is on 3rd floor; with light brown curtains.)
It is a mandatory I say. Working is nothing but an exercise. snake is a simple example as it losing its legs not using. The same way, one should definitely work and needs both physical and mental exercise.
Yes, I like to work. And for this present moment I need to work. From a Christian view point, to do a good job of my teaching and research is to fulfill God's calling; that's why we have a sense of fulfillment or achievement when we work. From a Confucian view point, those who labor with the mind are fulfilling a mission from heaven.
As religious values disintegrate in a materialistic society, we will observe that people don't wish to work, whether it's hard physical or mental work. But if parents put in effort in upbringing of children, we the children with a mission will arise and call them blessed.
http://www.cgst.edu/publication/Journal/46/J46_059_Art02Abstract.pdf
I like to work and if I don't need to work, I continue to work.
Many principles and religions don't like the unemployed who can work.
The work it's an honor and dignity.
Dear All,
I am glad you like working. Physical working is a pleasure for me. I prefer joiner’s and carpenter’s work. Here you are a recent photo: Mr. Bozsik chops wood!
Actually, for me, I found that physical working is easier to insist on than mental work when tired. Sometimes, physical work can even help to relieve the pressure from mental work. Whatever, I do think when I feel tired in mental, I'd like to become as a joiner or, carpenter for a while.
In Egypt and similar countries: Youngsters are not avoiding to work nor have tendency to not want to work. It is more because of the bureaucracy in the system and the very much influence of the 55+ in the system. I am a very active person, but I hate very much to see that everything is under the authority of very old people who unfortunately have nothing to add more in order to derive the scientific community to a better situation.
Looks like none of the precedent distinguished respondents have read Bertrand Russell's 'In Praise of Idleness' (1932 , available here: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html). Now, speaking more seriously, I think Andras raised not only a very serious question, but several serious questions (I do not read the blurbs with "i like to work" as actual responses to the direct question, because they are not... To give you an example and make a point, if you like to bike, and cycle four hours a day, is this work? and if is isn't , why it is not, since it involves a physical activity? Point is that whether you like or not to work depends on how you define work and on the context of 'work') Because sociologists had in the past interesting things to say about people's relation to work, I will be curious to read some answers provided by sociologists to this question, even if the question looks too personal, direct and not pretentious to warrant social scientists' response.
I love and am admired to work and when see my hard works giving good things back and be praised then that is a kind of inner happiness. Hard works always pay - sooner or later - I believe and follow this.
Dear Liviu,
I think cycling is a sport. I f you are a professional cyclist and you can get your living with cycling, it is a work.
Dear Dongqin, Andras, Kuldeep and all, I agree with Dongqin and some of you, that physical work is good for relieving stress caused by mental work. Yesterday (Sunday), I completed the first draft of a paper. (Andras, you won't like this; I had to include 2 other persons' names because their students took part as respondents, but I worked on it alone. If they are asked, and they can't defend the paper, it will just show they are rather ignorant.)
After the work of analyzing, applying and synthesizing previous results, and writing my conclusion, I was mentally exhausted. I had 1 hour of jogging cum brisk walk, but that wasn't enough. So I got out the long handled cobweb brush and removed the cobwebs in my apartment - satisfied! (My apartment is on 3rd floor; with light brown curtains.)
Dear All,
Many thanks for your contribution and opinion about human work relationship.
As far as I can assess from the popularity of this thread majority of RG participants are not enthusiasts of work.
Many thanks András, for your answer, but why isn't work cycling if someone who cycles four hours a day is not professional cyclist and can't get her living with cycling? Should we link "work" only with making a living? In this case, I think that your woodwork ins't actual work, isn't it? I chose cycling because it borders leisure and is a physical activity, but I could choose the intellectual work involved in reading, making notes, writing articles, etc. Someone could do all these activities and still not making a living as an academic (even if she does so, I do not believe that what she is paid for the job covers all these time intensive activities), so if someone does all these activities but is not making money out of them is she doing work of some sort or something else (just leisure)? ..Much depends of course on how we define "work", but with this major de-industrialization and the simultaneous raise of consumerism it is hard to define "work" in way we did in the old good days. Life (and work) is much more precarious nowadays, and work could be find in all unexpected (in the past) places...and I believe that this precarious "modernity" is well understood by the new generations (this is why they avoid by all the means "work," as understood by baby boomer or x generations and prefer becoming with little effort bankers, politicians, divas, or the sort of people who, as Joe Pesci put it in an old good movie...f..up other people money and get away with it)
Dear András,
I define myself as a peopleholic or pro life. This is why I never went medicine. I did not want to be involved with life and death matters. So, I went to education to guarantee people life improvements and to biology to understand all forms of life. But as we can not do researches in such a broad areas I concentrated my powers into teaching theology and biochemistry in biology. To work for me is to face the chanllange to change people's life and I end up helping myself as well. In a good sense I work because I need it.
I need to work to satisfy my needs and my well being in my world around me.
It must be an innate necessity in our customs, God does not love the person who is satisfied with his unemployment. Ultimately, I have to love it.
Thanks @Noureddine. I agree that we should work to provide for our own needs and contribute to the needs of others. Innovative ideas are in the minds of people like us who love our jobs.
@Vilemar, I studied Biology and Biochemistry during the 1st degree, but I switched to Education (social science) for various reasons and I never regretted that decision.
Work for me means life, and what is more bothers me" is emptiness", and also I do not like to work for the money ,so I like to volunteer in a lot of areas because in volunteer work all works for the benefit of everyone and for the pursuit of a goal.
Life without any work is a complete waste because it makes a person to have an 'empty brain which is a devil's workshop'. Working just for money but without having passion is dis courageous. Its better to work with passion and enthusiasm.
In our life we need to work to satistify our needs.In workin you feel that you are important in the society, you only avoids being just a little consumer
All adults need to work, but those who like to work are healthy persons or sound in body and mind.
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