Employment....

Well, I think that most of my readers pretty much know how I feel about employment: If you have it, do what's asked of you.

I just wanted to express the frustration that comes with people saying that, even though they may have employment, they don't care about it, or even saying that they don't care what's asked of them, they're not going to do it anyway, just because they don't feel like it.

Let me explain why this frustrates me.

I have 2 jobs. I work between 35 and 55 hours every week. I also work for myself at home, too, and I'm a full-time student at UW. I get very angry when people tell me that they just can't handle that darn 20-hour a week job that they get overpaid to do. It makes me feel like my efforts are futile. Not only that, but it really implies that there's a big problem in our society.

Shouldn't we all feel blessed to have employment, rather than whine and complain about it all the time? Surely I am not an exception to this, as I've definitely had awful days at work, and been treated unfairly. But truly, I just am angry with hearing this stuff all the time.

The Bible tells us that, "if a man shall not work, neither let him eat." Honestly, these days, I don't see that being the way that people view employment. People take advantage of the government and state assistance programs, people extort money from their businesses, they scam others, and not only that, but then they go and complain some more!

I think that if you have a job or jobs, you really should do everything in your power to keep them, and do well at them.