Miya Tokumitsu In The Name Of Love

As a matter of fact, nobody has a car repaired or has unique earrings made every day. Monthly bills, insurance, and gas have almost inflexible prices while “the business goes up and down” unpredictably (n.p). However, the writer believes that when working with passion and enthusiasm, technical jobs will make more money than paperwork and bring an interesting life. From my perspective, because of the loss of ability to afford for living expense, trades may face the enticement of money, alternatively, “charge more than a fair price” (n.p). Of course, money doesn’t bring happiness, but it is a requirement to reach that goal. Working with ambition to pursue goals may not bring expected results; it is necessary to prepare for that harsh

American entrepreneur, Steve Jobs, once said: “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Some people may take a job out of necessity rather than being passionate about their work. You have to love what you do as you spend more time working than being with loved ones. In Studs Terkel’s Working, adapted by Harvey Pekar, the reader is presented with visual adaptations of the lives of ordinary Americans that show how they feel about what they do for a living ranging from farmers, miners, barbers, box boys, and a hooker are some of the jobs mentioned in the novels. The author gives the

“Who are you and what are you doing here?” A question we all have asked ourselves. Also, the name of a speech given by a professor, named Mark Edmunson. Throughout this verbalization he explicates that people don’t genuinely go after what they optate and what makes them ecstatic, but having paramount figures in their lives tell you what you should value. They tell you what is right and wrong, but it’s mostly how they feel predicted off their own tastes, which does not benefit you. Edmunson explains how people have an idea of what they want to be because of the money that occupation makes, but later they ascertain that they want to do something else. But if they wanted to do it they could, they would just have to push through it; in the cessation, it wouldn’t be something they would relish.

Many people in today’s society find themselves guilty of believing the common misconception that money can buy happiness. They go to school to become a doctor, lawyer, or other high paying job, with money and social status as their only incentives. Many will find that they have fallen into a trap, when they start earning their large salary, but still are not happy. While there were many messages present throughout Studs Terkels Working: a graphic adaptation, the most important reoccurring message seemed to be that having pride and dignity as well as working at a job that fulfills one’s life passion or is simply enjoyable are more important qualities than earning a large salary and having a high rank on the social ladder. The interaction of

Leah LaBelle once stated, ¨Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to.” Society is often caught in the realm between making a living and being content with the work someone is completing. Some argue that happiness should come before money, but others feel as though money allows for more opportunities to create joy. In Mike Rowe: Learning from dirty jobs, Rowe addresses that there are several distasteful jobs that are available to the American people, however, “The broken basic bargain” discusses the psychological issues that can accompany someone should he/she follow one of these unpleasant careers.

Roszak makes a point in his essay about jobs being our salvation, where he describe there is no end to a working life. Roszak describes the waste of time in people’s jobs and that most employees don’t even put all of their effort into them. He figures

To produce such a satisfaction within one’s life is to essentially generate pleasure, which residents of our society are continuously seeking. Being an expert in a specific craft does

Tokumitsu confirms that employees can resist being controlled by companies because “doing what you love” (DWYL) goes directly against corporations (2). By “DWYL” it promotes employees to break away from the company and to do something that makes them happy. Although Tokumitsu says how great it is to “DWYL” she claims that there is a negative side that is destructive to others by saying “DWYL distracts us from the working conditions of others while validating our own choices and relieving us from obligations to all who labor, whether or not they love it” (2). This means that people who “DWYL” become only concerned with themselves being happy and do not care about the other workers who have terrible jobs. The mantra “DWYL” opposes both Hochschild’s and Davies’ views on what takes place within the workplace. Davies and Hochschild claim that employees have either accepted the “emotional labor” placed on them or simply will not show up to work. Neither Hochschild nor Davies have ever discussed whether employees are able to truly “enjoy” working unless management gives workers certain incentives. As a result Tokumitsus shares the views of Hochschild and Davies about how corporations are effecting employees’ emotions but has

    What a person does to make a living often defines who that person is. Because so much time and energy is invested into work, work is often seen as an extension of oneself. One of the first questions that someone asks after meeting you for the first time is about what you do for a living. The belief is that by knowing what you do, one should be able to tell something about who you are. People almost never ask the more telling question of whether or not you are happy. They rely on the nature of the occupation to tell them something about your happiness. If you are a doctor, lawyer, or celebrity, it is assumed you are happy because of the money associated with those

In the second seminar, Aditya Chakrabortty’s article ‘Why our jobs are getting worse’ provides us a great standpoint of work reality and explains the reason of why people no longer enjoy going to work. Similar to Ritzer, He believed more and more occupations are changing

Many people today find themselves in “dead-end” jobs, or they feel like work is purposeless and frustrating. At the same time, some people figured out that work is a blessing to them. People who suffer their lives in a slavery for many years in another country, think that work is a curse because they were ruled by people. They work because they are forced by other people. Work is a blessing for most people, but for some people work is a curse because of the lack of opportunity. Work is a blessing for those who understand it. To understand that work is a blessing was one of true understanding the purpose of life. It is important because not knowing the purpose of life brought people depressed. As Honore said “I'm retired from the Army, but

Growing up, everyone is told to pursue a career doing something they love. Who wouldn’t want a job that not only pays well but is also enjoyable? Although many individuals obtain well-paying jobs, you would be surprised how many of them actually hate their job. In fact, 20% to 40% of people report hating their job (Ashley Stahl). Having a job you hate will most likely result in an unhappy life. Not only will you be unhappy, but you could also bump into some serious health issues along the way. Yes, everyone loves money, but your health and well-being should always come first. The positive effects that come from having a job you love outweigh the possibility of not making that much money; having a job you love is important because it determines how happy you will be in life.

Gîlmeanu (2015 p.70) defines job satisfaction as “an attitude or emotional response to work tasks and simultaneously to the social and physical conditions of the workplace”. In order to employ these feelings and behaviours, it is necessary to understand the cause of dissatisfaction in order to disperse it. As mentioned in Figure 1, the cause of job dissatisfaction are concerned with personal disposition, task and roles, supervisors and co-workers, and pay and benefits. Three of these categories are directly controlled by the organisation and without effectively understanding them organisations know little on how to avoid them (Noe et al. 2015).

Work takes on greater importance in a society where people believe that they can master the material world and shape their own destinies, and less where they believe that they can not. An Ancient Greek philosopher said that the only stability in the world was within one's mind or soul, where ideas were secure from the unending changes that took place in the material world. In Ancient Greece, philosophers believed that a person's thoughts and ideas were more important than that person's work and that work in the material world lacked permanence. For the ancient Greeks, the status of particular occupations depended on the degree of freedom a person had, the perceived moral integrity of the occupation, and the amount of mental and physical work it required. Today we tend to feel that working in an office is better than working in a coal mine, regardless of which worker makes more money. Our language suggests that it is a privilege to work sitting down.

‘Job satisfaction is not just about job conditions. Personality also plays a role. Research has shown that people who have positive core self-evaluations—who believe in their inner worth and basic competence—are more satisfied with their jobs than those with negative core self-evaluations. They not only see their work as more fulfilling and challenging but also are more likely to gravitate towards challenging jobs in the first place. Those with negative core self-evaluations set less ambitious goals and are more likely to give up when confronting difficulties. Thus, they are more likely to be stuck in boring, repetitive jobs than those with positive core self-evaluations.’