Most of us spend most of our lives working in one way or another. Most of us also eagerly anticipate the times when we can stop working. When we get the chance, how many of us really stop altogether? What motivates us to work or not work, and our feelings about the work we do?
There is something more to work than material necessity. Doing work that you feel is meaningful and worthwhile tends to make you happier and healthier; doing work that you feel is pointless or shameful tends to lead to the opposite. The motivation to work for the sake of meaning is less obvious than for financial or material gain, but it may be just as potent. When thinking about the shape of society we want, it would be a mistake to think of work only in terms of the material gains it produces and delivers. Depriving people of meaning causes suffering just as surely as depriving them of food, shelter, medical care and comfort. Work will always be a vital part of human life, but work for work’s sake, even accompanied by all the material riches you can imagine, will never be enough. At the end of the day, what are we all really working for?
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Sources
‘The Selfish Gene’, ‘The Extended Phenotype’ and ‘The God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins.
The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work - Edited by Ruth Yeoman, Catherine Bailey, Adrian Madden, and Marc Thompson -
Volunteering and health benefits in general adults: cumulative effects and forms by Jerf W. K. Yeung,corresponding author Zhuoni Zhang, and Tae Yeun Kim -
Data on Australia’s Welfare: Volunteers (2019) -
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Written by Andrew Johnson and Jackson Winter
Spoken by Andrew Johnson
Edited by Jackson Winter
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Night Snow by Asher Fulero
1940’s Slow Dance (Sting) by Doug Maxwell, Media Right Productions
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