Thursday, May 24, 2007

What is work?

What is work?

I obviously don't intend to explain the definition of work as per ICSE Std IX Physics textbooks.

For most of us, work is something we do to make a living. Obviously, we all aspire to a certain lifestyle. And to realize that lifestyle, we need money. And we work to earn that money. Its quite simple, really.

The problem happens when you don't really love your work. But you still have to do it because you need to earn your living.

This gives rise to 2 questions:
  1. Do we really know what we love?
  2. Why does work and earning a living have to be linked?

Over the next few days, I'd love to engage in a conversation with you to answer these questions.

1 comment:

WattMan said...

to take a shot at ur questions:

1. u surely know what u do NOT love if u r in the situation mentioned. if u r (un)lucky enough to get enuff exposures, u wud find something u DO love.

2. not at all necessary to have a link between work & earning-a-living. u may wanna look at the ppl in the Fortune 50 wealthiest list. they didnt stop working when they got their first billion $$'s. the deeper or better question is: (a) do they enjoy what they r doing and making money is the after-effect? (b) or do they enjoy making money and have figured out a way how to do it?

look fwd to hearing from you !