Essay/Term paper: Having a happy job

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Philosophy

"I need a job." How many times have I heard that one – I"ve heard it a million times. Living in a modern society based on a green piece of paper, I am burdened, and feel it maybe even impossible to survive without one. Without money, I wouldn"t have cars, clothes, livelihood or maybe even my health. Today it is simple, to luxuriate in finer things you need money, and to get money, I need a job.

"I hate my job." How many times have I heard that one? A million and one. It seems nobody today is content with his or her job. So why do it? Because I have to work; hence, I don"t have an option. I feel that most people, like myself, find their place of work rather uncomfortable; however, I still need to keep my job.

For the last two summers, I worked a job, which at first I thought was ideal. I was a PC/LAN Coordinator at Chippenham Hospital. "How neat," I thought, "I love to work with computers, and they are paying me eight dollars an hour!" I even had and office and everything. Starting out there was so intoxicating; I was able to practice my computer networking expertise and it almost seemed like it wasn"t any work at all. Soon things became repetitive, I started getting bored, and I was getting instructed to do more new tasks every day. I felt dissatisfied with the menial tasks I was given, and, although the paycheck was generous, I felt frustrated at the end of each week. I felt my boss was nice to me, but this was just not a job that stimulated my interests. The amount of deskwork was boring, and I enjoy being around people and moving to different locations during the workday.


Soon enough I hated my great job! I made the decision an office was definitely not the vocation for me. It even got to the point where I would feel apprehensive about coming into work every day, because I knew I would be doing the exact same thing in the exact same place. Then I set out a goal in my life: I will not anguish myself with a job with which I am not happy. I believe this objective is important - if I am going to a workplace every day that I hate, then I need to find a way to find another occupation that interests me.

I see too many people for whom work ruins their lives, and I don"t believe my work should add so much stress that I have time for nothing else. How can I live with that choice? Simply, if I every find myself in a miserable job, I will leave because life"s too important to be wasted away at a job that I don"t like. This is why I am planning to live my life in a career in whatever I will enjoy doing, so I won"t be devaluing my life in any manner.