Friday, May 05, 2006
Work is hard
This morning I heard about one of my friends who's working in a high burnout position for a huge US corporation: Long days, new bosses, a promise to move to a better position that hasn't yet been kept.
It is easy to think that the grass is always greener on the other side. Some days I wish I could work for a bigger company so that I could have better benefits, a better defined job description, paid holidays, and so on. Then again, I do have some advantages that mega-corporations do not have: I won't be relocated, I know my contributions count, I have intimate access to top management (someday I'll post about how to thrive while sharing office space with in-laws), I don't have boring routine (where else can one file a payroll tax return and lift 50 pound bags of sugar in the same day?), and so on.
After Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, God cursed the human race by making us work by the sweat of our brow, and the land would produce thistles. Work will not be easily joyful until those of us who trust Jesus as our Lord and Savior make it to the New Heaven and New Earth. Until then, we must persevere.
It is easy to think that the grass is always greener on the other side. Some days I wish I could work for a bigger company so that I could have better benefits, a better defined job description, paid holidays, and so on. Then again, I do have some advantages that mega-corporations do not have: I won't be relocated, I know my contributions count, I have intimate access to top management (someday I'll post about how to thrive while sharing office space with in-laws), I don't have boring routine (where else can one file a payroll tax return and lift 50 pound bags of sugar in the same day?), and so on.
After Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, God cursed the human race by making us work by the sweat of our brow, and the land would produce thistles. Work will not be easily joyful until those of us who trust Jesus as our Lord and Savior make it to the New Heaven and New Earth. Until then, we must persevere.
