In meditating over the course of the year, I am more convinced now that there is no reason for anyones job to control their life. I am even more convinced today that there is a big difference between your job and your work. Some people have a job, but have no work, while some have work, but have no job. I remember back in the days when I was yet to go into a university, I was so busy I only now imagine what exactly I was doing? I left home at 10am in the morning and came back at night tired. What exactly I found to do, I cannot really account for them all, but I was positively engaged in making my life better and the lives of others. I had no job, but I had work to do. So everyone around me never knew I had no job, and looked at me as one busy man who was actively engaged with some paying job somewhere. They were right. I was actively engaged, and it was also paying me off as well. But not in the way they thought about it. I had a close friend who never knew I had no paying job for close to 5 years, and was stunned when I stated that I wasn’t paid for the things I did. It now all makes sense to me. But then I was only living, but now I have a chance to look back and see that most of what I know today and how much I have grown, came from my full time engagement in work; even without a job.
Many today have lost their jobs, but worse still have no work. This is the worse place to be. Your job only gives you money, but your work gives you satisfaction. Some are lucky that their jobs have also become their work, but only in a few cases do you see this. When you have this understanding, you will know that though you may be fired from your job, you can never be fired from your work. Your work is what you do outside what you are instructed to do to earn money. No one gives you this assignment, but it comes from a conviction of what you know about the course your life ought to take. This is where your true worth lies. So if your job ends today, your work will always continue and give you a reason to wake up in the morning. It will keep your excitement constant, and retain your peak performance indicators at its highest levels. Discouragement doesn’t come to a person who has work to do, it only comes to the jobless and the ‘workless’. So if you are in a situation of having no job, while searching, make sure you are working at something and not sitting idle. Stop whining about no job and you have already sent out enough resumes. Now take a sit, relax, and take off the scales on your eyes and the foreskins of your heart and understand the process you are going through. Most people are overly presumptuous, and think they understand what is going on in the world. Therefore you have many changing professions and going to get qualification for something else, when they aren’t sure what aspect of society will be hard hit again. They wrongly assess the situation and fail to look inward and find grace to continue in life.
Like my mentor will say: “Life does not give you what you deserve, only what you demand”. So stop waiting for a dream job. Get busy with the work you have to do. If your dream job comes good, if it doesn’t makes no difference. Why? YOU HAVE WORK TO DO, GET ABOUT IT. So I ask you this: are you jobless and workless at the same time? Then the image on this note refers to you. But I tell you, being jobless doesn’t mean being workless. Go and do some work
Jobless But Not Workless
Posted by davidluiz in Headline
In meditating over the course of the year, I am more convinced now that there is no reason for anyones job to control their life. I am even more convinced today that there is a big difference between your job and your work. Some people have a job, but have no work, while some have work, but have no job. I remember back in the days when I was yet to go into a university, I was so busy I only now imagine what exactly I was doing? I left home at 10am in the morning and came back at night tired. What exactly I found to do, I cannot really account for them all, but I was positively engaged in making my life better and the lives of others. I had no job, but I had work to do. So everyone around me never knew I had no job, and looked at me as one busy man who was actively engaged with some paying job somewhere. They were right. I was actively engaged, and it was also paying me off as well. But not in the way they thought about it. I had a close friend who never knew I had no paying job for close to 5 years, and was stunned when I stated that I wasn’t paid for the things I did. It now all makes sense to me. But then I was only living, but now I have a chance to look back and see that most of what I know today and how much I have grown, came from my full time engagement in work; even without a job.
Many today have lost their jobs, but worse still have no work. This is the worse place to be. Your job only gives you money, but your work gives you satisfaction. Some are lucky that their jobs have also become their work, but only in a few cases do you see this. When you have this understanding, you will know that though you may be fired from your job, you can never be fired from your work. Your work is what you do outside what you are instructed to do to earn money. No one gives you this assignment, but it comes from a conviction of what you know about the course your life ought to take. This is where your true worth lies. So if your job ends today, your work will always continue and give you a reason to wake up in the morning. It will keep your excitement constant, and retain your peak performance indicators at its highest levels. Discouragement doesn’t come to a person who has work to do, it only comes to the jobless and the ‘workless’. So if you are in a situation of having no job, while searching, make sure you are working at something and not sitting idle. Stop whining about no job and you have already sent out enough resumes. Now take a sit, relax, and take off the scales on your eyes and the foreskins of your heart and understand the process you are going through. Most people are overly presumptuous, and think they understand what is going on in the world. Therefore you have many changing professions and going to get qualification for something else, when they aren’t sure what aspect of society will be hard hit again. They wrongly assess the situation and fail to look inward and find grace to continue in life.
Like my mentor will say: “Life does not give you what you deserve, only what you demand”. So stop waiting for a dream job. Get busy with the work you have to do. If your dream job comes good, if it doesn’t makes no difference. Why? YOU HAVE WORK TO DO, GET ABOUT IT. So I ask you this: are you jobless and workless at the same time? Then the image on this note refers to you. But I tell you, being jobless doesn’t mean being workless. Go and do some work