Here's a little back story to why I started thinking about this. Since December, we had a TV stand packaged up, and a brand new TV still in it's box just waiting. We couldn't put either of them up, since we couldn't move the other TV cabinet, since it weighed more then an elephant. (Exaggeration.) We finally got some movers to come and move it yesterday morning.
So when I got home, the TV stand was in the family room, in the box. So, at roughly four, I got like 4 screwdrivers, a hammer(Never used it), a wrench(Never used it), and scissors and got down to business. By 9pm(Taking breaks every so often for dinner and such.) I was finished. And I felt GOOD. I wasn't expecting to get past the first part of instructions, much less finish the thing. But I did the whole thing myself, minus some parts where I needed my mother to hold something still while I screwed it in. Now, as far as building things go, it wasn't hard. It was screw here, fit in place, etc. There was just some tedious parts. But I had a sense of accomplishment. I spent most of my free time that day building something, and I was happy. Weird, huh?
Anyway, I was thinking about how little in our life gives that sense of accomplishment. How often do you feel good about that worksheet you finished, or that report you wrote up? I know I don't feel too good about it, it's just "Now that's done, what's next?" It seems like a ton of jobs don't give that sense of accomplishment either. I cannot, for the life of me, imagine a cubicle job being at all rewarding, like you're really DOING something. I kind of feel like a lot of problems might be lessened, if not solved, if people were getting more sense of accomplishments from their life. I don't think it's the long work hours, or the stress that really hurt people. It's the boring, tediousness, USELESSNESS that people feel towards their job. They don't care, because they don't feel like they're doing anything.
I suppose that's why I want to be a therapist. Helping people directly seems like a good way to avoid that, and I get to help people. It's win-win. Hopefully.
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I think you are touching on something here - but it is not about kobs in general, but jobs for teens. teens are given so few opportunities in society to do meaningful work that they have a feeling that they don't matter. good for you finding a way to matter! This is sort of a preview of a post I was planning on. In short, I am going to ask, "what do you live for?" In other words, what makes life meaningful to you? You are obviously already thinking about that and that's commendable for you.
it should say jobs not kobs - sorry
=) That's often on my mind. Maybe more then it should, but I think it's a worthy topic for my brain to work over.
I know what you mean and I completely agree with you. It feels really good to do something that actually has meaning, like helping someone else and accomplishing something (like you did with building and wanting to become a therapist to help people directly).
I don't personally know you but from reading your thoughts on the blogs something tells me you will be great at it. Go for it =)
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