Does your job work for you?

[greyl]

Preamble: It's not us. It's not humanity. It's our culture.

The essential point to note is that for all your complaining, your schools are doing just what you actually want them to do, which is produce workers who have no choice but to enter your economic system, pre-sorted into various grades. High school graduates are generally destined for blue collar jobs. They may be as intelligent and talented as college graduates, but they haven't demonstrated this by surviving a further four years of studies – studies that, for the most part, are no more useful in life than the studies of the previous twelve. Nevertheless, a college graduate wins admittance to white collar jobs that are generally off limits to high school graduates.

What blue and white collar workers actually retain of their schooling doesn't much matter – in either their working lives or their private lives. Very, very few of them will ever be called upon to divide one fractional number by another, parse a sentence, dissect a frog, critique a poem, prove a theorem, discuss the economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, define the differences between Spenserian and Shakespearean sonnets, describe how a bill passes Congress, or explain why the oceans bulge on opposite sides of the world as a result of tidal forces. Thus, if they graduate without being able to do these things, it doesn't really matter in the slightest. . . .

The schools turn out graduates who can't live without jobs, but have no job skills, and this suits your economic needs perfectly. What you're seeing at work in your schools isn't a system defect, it's a system requirement, and they meet that requirement with close to one hundred percent efficiency.
http://www.uurockford.org/sermons/s99-22.htm

In other words, as we all probably agree, we are ultimately responsible for our own authentic education. Society isn't capable of nurturing your intellect. It only frustrates a curious one.

[Pharaoh]

1. right on greyl

they are just sorting and processing us during the long long educational ordeal

the better to feed us into the machine....


on edit.........no my job does not work for me, I am a postal letter carrier, but where I live it is a decent job and hard to make ends meet with less. In 5 years I can retire! yeeehaaa!!!!

unfortunatly Bush will have screwed us all long before then.....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Does my job work for me?

Yes, it does. But then I don't consider that for which I am given money my job. I believe Marley's Ghost said it this way, "Mankind was my business."

I used to teach elementary school, and I felt then that the most important thing to teach children were not the multiplication tables, etc, but rather to instill within each child a sense of self-worth and compassion for others. Sometimes I succeeded, sometimes I didn't-but I know in some of the cases where I did, it changed a child's life and gave him the incentive to keep going on.

When I found my spiritual calling, I was told that I was not to teach any more. I still clung to teaching, out of fear that I couldn't do anything else, I guess, until I faced an injust and intolerable situation, whereupon I quit. For one painful year I reassessed myself, and found that, lo and behold, I couldn't define myself by my job any more. And I was forced to look at my character, and what I held dear.

It was then I realized that my business was to help others in the moment of our meeting. Most of the time, that help is rather mundane; setting appointments, calling one of the workers with a change in schedule. But sometimes I have found out that, inadvertantly, I have set into motion a chain of events that has effected a whole lot of people. This has happened when I follow my heart's command and not my mind.

Right now, I work in an office; if that goes by the wayside, I know I will still be me, and I will still have my work to do. During that years' unemployment, I learned a lot about trusting in Spirit, and finding out just what was really necessary and what was not-something I know I am still learning.

So I go back to my first paragraph. If I were teaching anyone now, my first lesson would be in self-esteem, my second in compassion. As Hillel said when asked to summarize the Torah in as few words as possible" Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. All the rest is commentary".

[greyl]

3. Yes. Does your job work for you? nt

[Journeyman]

4. "We are ultimately responsible. . ."

Soneone once said to Oscar Wilde:

"I'm a self-educated man."

Came the reply:

"As are we all, sir. As are we all."