w“Why Work?”
Growing up, my dad always told me “Find something you love because you will have to do it for the rest of your life.” I feel like that relates to the reading from this week. In the text, the author writes “…work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do” (p. 192). The author talks about vocation and how we are called to do something, that “…we should no longer think of work as something that we hastened to get through in order to enjoy our leisure” (p. 193–194), and “we should all find ourselves fighting…for precious time, in which to get on with the job–instead of fighting for precious hours saved from the job” (p. 194).
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And yes. I completely agree with this viewpoint, especially with the way that I was raised to view “work.” However, I do not believe that we necessarily have to find our calling. I believe that your calling is what you make it. If you want to do something bad enough and are willing to work for it, that is your calling because you make it your calling. We make an effort to find what we love and find something that we believe has meaning. As the author says, “We should clamour to be engaged on work that was worth doing, and in which we could take a pride” (p. 194).
