You know, we all go through the “bread ‘n butter” jobs, the ones that pay the bills. But, real joy is working at something you truly love, even if there might only be a “thanks” at the end of it.
If you have worked 60 to 80 hours a week for 25 years and have nothing to show for it, shame on you. If you have a certain lifestyle that you must maintain, shame on you.
God does provide. I walked away from a job, that I could no longer do, 14 years ago. I felt a ton of weight immediately removed from my shoulders.
I did not know what I was going to do, but God provided, and my life opened up.
Just think about what you really need. Work toward making a change in your life, in your heart. There is pure joy from working at what you love to do, and helping others to do the same.
God bless.
I don’t ask for much - just a decent house in a decent neighborhood, an occasional vacation, and a useable car.
Even just that costs more than a lot of jobs pay. So don’t give me that “shame on you” bull.
I'm glad you are secure in your faith, but somehow I don't think that telling a collection agency, or a mortgage company, that "God will provide" is going to help.
If you have worked 60 to 80 hours a week for 25 years and have nothing to show for it, shame on you. If you have a certain lifestyle that you must maintain, shame on you.
I'm sorry that you missed that my post was really sort of "tongue in cheek" and a bit satirical. Actually, I do love my job. I certainly couldn't do anything for 60 to 80 hours a week for some twenty five years that I didn't enjoy. Actually, I rather love my job, for the most part. My job right now is as a network administrator, part of a 3 man team that manages some 200 or so servers and 600 remote locations. In fact, I'm taking a short break right now from upgrading the anti-virus software on 60 terminal services servers right now. And as I replied to another post, I enjoy my job enough so that it's also my hobby as well. I've been working with computers for some 25 years (professionally) in nearly every aspect, from programmer, to break/fix tech, to systems engineer, to educator - I was a math/cs tutor and TA in college, and spent 4 1/2 years as a Novell instructor (a Master CNE / Master CNI), to my current job as a network administrator. The only thing I've learned over the last 25 years that I can't do is NOT work. About 10 years ago I needed to have emergency back surgery, and wouldn't be able to work or even sit for 4 to 6 weeks. After 3 days I was starting to go nuts, and after 2 weeks I walked to a client site and begged them to give me something to do (at no charge) as long as there was no lifting or sitting. I was back at work in 3 1/2 weeks.
But I also realize that I've put off a lot of things in my life in order to become good at what I do. And those are the things I'm looking forward to once I retire, probably in about another 20 years or so.
Mark