Why Working Is Important
A recent poll says that 85% of people don’t like their jobs so is work important to our lives? In my opinion work is the most important thing about our lives. People say that family is most important, but they wouldn’t be able to raise their families if it wasn’t for working in order to support them. Here are some reasons why we need to work and why work is perhaps the most important thing about our lives:
Work Gives Us Purpose
The purpose of life is to be happy and one of the most important ways we can be happy is by doing meaningful work. What is meaningful work? Work becomes meaningful when we feel it matters. When we do work that makes other people happy, even if it’s only the boss or your workmates, it makes it meaningful and not a pain in the neck.
Work Builds Self Respect
Our work is the source of our self-respect. When we work and contribute positively we feel good about ourselves. If we do our jobs to the best of our ability no matter what our jobs are we can feel good about ourselves and work is perhaps the most important source of feeling good.
Work Gives Us Money
Money is the fuel we need to achieve what it is we want. Without work we have no money. Only if we have money can we live a nice life. Therefore work is such an important thing to do, without it there is no way of having all the things you want and even things you need.
Work Is About Our Identity
Think about it whenever you go to a social event or meet up with friends and acquaintances, people ask you – What do you do for a living? What you do becomes who you are. Ideally work should be an extension of who we are as people. Work is your identity, What is more important than identity?
Work Is A Productive Way To Live
Imagine what we would do with our lives if we didn’t have work to do. Work is the most important thing about our lives because without work what on earth would we do with our lives? If we didn’t work our lives would be idle and meaningless.
Work Allows Us To Build Friends And Family
Work allows you to do other things in life, like having a personal and social life. If there was no work available you would have no social life and having a social life is an important source of happiness. Think family holidays and days out, think meals or going out to the theatre with friends. In order to do these things we need to work.
Work Makes Us Happy
Work is the most important source of happiness. Think successful individuals like Richard Branson for instance, is he happy? You bet he is. Try to enjoy your job no matter what it is. Take pride in what you do because this will determine the quality of your days and that of your happiness.
Work Means You Are Contributing To Society
We need to work because it’s the only way to make a positive contribution to society. By working we are paying tax and national insurance which pays for the infrastructure of this Country i.e.: the NHS, Schools, roads etc.. By not working we are living off of Society, taking the money that people who are working are contributing. Contributing to society gives you pride and makes you feel a positive member of society.
Work Helps You Grow
There are skills which can only be learned by working and these skills help you grow as a person. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs in our world didn’t go on to further education. However they worked and worked and became better at what they did over the years. If we don’t work, we simply don’t grow professionally.
Work Makes The World A Better Place
Work is the only way to make the world a better place. So do your work carefully, what you do contributes to society and therefore make the world a better place. Don’t ever think that what you do as a job is not important, whether you drive a bus, sweep the streets or work in a Bank your job is crucial to Society.
I think it’s high time that we give work a good name, work is perhaps the most important way of finding meaning and purpose in life and should be treated accordingly.