Posted on 08/18/2013 6:00:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
‘zackly !
I learned something from every job I’ve ever had. It doesn’t matter whether I held the job for a week or 18 years.
Kutcher is right. You’re not too good for a job.
The dichotomy is decent as far as it goes, but there are a good many people in the world who fit neither description, and depend on the work of others. There is a reason kids don’t have jobs until they reach a certain age. There is a reason some people literally do not have the capacity to get out of bed in the first place. The proper context and foundation for living responsibly is realizing from the get go one is a creature whose very being in time depends every moment solely on the grace of God, the Creator. To the extent any individual swings his feet out of bed (or not) ignores this fact, he does so at his and his neighbor’s peril.
The answer for me is never. There is a corollary question which is equally telling. “Have you ever held a job foe which many or most people would look down on you?” A caveat - the job must be non-criminal and morally proper.
I’ve held an assortment of agricultural, service, blue collar and management positions. They paid the bills, even during numerous strikes which idled me though I disagreed with the actions. I even had my own small import business which was the most difficult. During a strike and later when coming back from an industrial injury, I was a janitor. Unpleasant but essential work, why look down on it. Imagine a world without janitors.
Kutcher’s best work was in the “70s” JMO
His statement rings wonderfully true though. In tho older days this would have been stated as “if you are too proud to sweep floors to feed yourself or your family, then starve.”
Moving up from an entry job used to be about ambition, drive, and hard work. It seems now that it is an entitlement.
Even with all the YouTube hits, it may be too little too late.
KYPD
I am pretty fortunate to have n office that appreciates every job as important. Because every job IS important.
The few new employees we have had that don’t agree have been replaced.
I do have an issue with the younger folks that want to come in and run the company.
I think you are way over thinking his response. His response is that any job is better than no job. You take the job you can get, work hard and look to step up to the next opportunity.
Good possibility. I over think a lot of things.
Yes, it was a very good message...
You or others (in the past at least) did not need an education to get ahead but you did need the right attitude. That means that you understood that you were uneducated and maybe not as smart as others nor as educated but you would strive to succeed. If you wanted to exceed in a particular field, there were books...
The result in my case worked out well. No high school diploma, but with some education (mostly just the experience of something new in my life) in the military succeeded very well. It was mostly done by excitement of learning new things via books rather than school learning. That actually paid off many fold later. I’ve always said since that experience that I can do anything if it is available in books. Actually that is the experience of my similar aged folks - Jobs is an excellent example.
The most important thing to my mind, even today is do you want to learn new things. If you do, you will succeed! There is nothing else that will replace that attitude.
Today’s generation - my hopes are becoming a bit less hopeful. Maybe it is just the expected outcome of government today and it is really bad!
Yes, it was a very good message...
You or others (in the past at least) did not need an education to get ahead but you did need the right attitude. That means that you understood that you were uneducated and maybe not as smart as others nor as educated but you would strive to succeed. If you wanted to exceed in a particular field, there were books...
The result in my case worked out well. No high school diploma, but with some education (mostly just the experience of something new in my life) in the military succeeded very well. It was mostly done by excitement of learning new things via books rather than school learning. That actually paid off many fold later. I’ve always said since that experience that I can do anything if it is available in books. Actually that is the experience of my similar aged folks - Jobs is an excellent example.
The most important thing to my mind, even today is do you want to learn new things. If you do, you will succeed! There is nothing else that will replace that attitude.
Today’s generation - my hopes are becoming a bit less hopeful. Maybe it is just the expected outcome of government today and it is really bad!
Sorry for the double posts, seems to be really slow response with this site right now...
Upon reflection, you missed the point entirely. Of course you moved on, we all strive to do that, but the author was saying that he was not better than any job he had held. If you are to be believed, you were too good to tutor. That is not what the author said or meant. You take pride in your work, no matter what it is, and I'll just bet that you were a good tutor and took pride in that.
Apples and space shuttles.
“I learned something from every job I’ve ever had.”
Hear, hear. This statement is absolutely true. I learned a great deal about working with people when I was a busboy in a restaurant at 15. It’s a darned shame that the way our society is structured now, regulations and laws, and so on, many “children” - and I do mean, children - don’t actually get their first job until they graduate college. This, of course, makes them almost completely worthless until they are in their late 20’s.
I always get a smile when asked if i would like a store card.
‘Would you like a CVS card?”
“No I like to pay for my stuff.” : )
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