Bryce Despain - How Work Is Misleading

How Work Is Misleading

If I were to ask someone what the term work meant to them, I guarantee that they would most likely tell me the definition of the word by looking into a dictionary. However, most people fail to realize that work is one of those terms that have a way deeper meaning behind them. It all just depends on how exactly the context of the word is used. In today’s society, work is no longer looked upon as a one-sided word. Generations ago, the term work was considered transactional. Today the term work is just a way of living. 

Work is a part of life and or a way of living. From the very beginning of elementary to the time you graduate high school, you are constantly told that if you don’t go to college, then you won’t have a good life or job. However, that is all false. In today’s time, you are not required to go to college in order to theoretically “work” and or have a “good life.” What most people don’t understand is that the term work is very misleading. Everything that you’ve previously heard in school, about working for the rest of your life until you are of retirement age—which right now is currently 66—isn’t true. The teachers and other adults tell you all of that because they are trying to mislead you. All of them just want to make sure that you don’t become successful in life. The saddest part about it is that a lot of people tend to fall for these lies. This is mainly because as a child you really have no presence in the real world at all and you aren’t that educated to begin with. This leads you to believe whatever the teacher tells you. However, I am here to encourage you that you don’t have to go to college in order to have a good job.

You don’t have to work at a job that doesn’t suit what you truly want to do in life. You don’t have to let what others say affect your decisions and what you want to do in life. You don’t have to let others tell you what you are good at and what you aren’t. You don’t have to let others decide what is best for you in your own life. You just need to follow your dreams and work the way you see fit to accomplish anything you want. 

Work is about making relationships with others. When you become of age to get a job, you start to see that work is a lot more then what it is perceived to be. A major thing that happens when you start working somewhere is you make a lot of new relationships with the people there. Some of the relationships are good ones, and some are bad. It all just depends on your perspective of that person and how both of you treat each other in those relationships. 

I work with my father in the summertime and have made many relationships with the people that I work with. You would be surprised about how many relationships you will make when you start to work somewhere. It may not seem like it at first, because you aren’t technically friends with some of the people. However, after you continually talk to the people that surround you day after day, you start to create a relationship with them. After that, it is up to you whether or not you want a relationship with that person. 

Work is about having responsibility for whatever you do. Working is a huge responsibility on its own to have, however, there are many other responsibilities you have while you work. One of the major responsibilities being that you should make sure that you are always doing your job to the best of your ability, regardless of the position you are in. The entire reason for this is because if you want to keep your job, you have to be willing to commit to it. Otherwise, if you aren’t going to be committed to your job, why are you even there to begin with?

While you are working somewhere, you should show up to work when you are expected too. Many people don’t understand, but this is one of the key factors as to why a lot of people get fired from their jobs. Wherever you work, you have the major responsibility to show up on time. This is because of the employer, they aren’t just paying you to show up late. They are paying you to get a job done, and if you are constantly showing up late to work, then that isn’t occurring. 

Not only should you show up to work on time, but you should also manage your time well while you are there. These two responsibilities are connected to each other, as if you don’t have one of them, then you have neither of them. That is because if you don’t show up to work on time, then how are you going to manage your time well, get anything done, or even be productive? Managing your time well is important as you have to get a lot of various tasks done while at work.

Work is essentially about all your previous experience with whatever you choose to do in life. Throughout your entire life, time doesn’t stop for you as you continuously age. So because of that, you usually tend to gain a lot of new experience. Wherever you work, the experience that you have previously learned is crucial, as it becomes helpful later on. It is so crucial because if you go straight into a new position with no previous experience with it, then you aren’t going to be in any good situation. Sure, if it is something new that you have never done before then you could just learn. However, it is much better to go into a field of work that you have had past experience with, as you would have a much easier time. 

Many people wouldn’t agree with me that the term work has a way deeper meaning behind it then what it was originally perceived to have. On the other hand, some would agree that the term has a deeper meaning, as I believe it to have. However, even though we all will have differing opinions on what the term work really means. We can all agree on one thing, the term work is no longer a one-sided word as it once was long ago. The term used to be considered transactional. However, it is now just a way of living in this time and age.