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`` Happiness Does Not Come From Doing Easy Work?

Satisfactory Essays

Theodore Isaac Rubin once said- “Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best” (Theodore Isaac Rubin quotes, n.d.). I had always been planning a career around social work and had volunteered in few non-profit organizations when I was in Nepal, one of which included talking to uneducated women into taking free literacy classes offered by a NGO supported school in Nepal. A group of volunteers including myself was working on this program back then. It was difficult to convince seventeen heads of families to allow their uneducated female members to join classes. Several did not have enough time and a few did not give us time to explain the program. This volunteer work had taken a day to complete and would take a lifetime to forget. The joy, the satisfaction, the ecstasy is incomparable when one realizes that she/he had contributed something in the making of a reliable future from an undependable present. With time, my interest and personal/career goals shifted more towards serving adults with disabilities as I was volunteering in an agency that provides services to individual with emotional and developmental disabilities. After graduating from college, I accepted a position of a Program Manager in the same company that allowed me to expand my knowledge in human resource management while having the opportunity to serve the underprivileged individuals. This plan was

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