[Skybird]

Work is a value in itself where it helps you to realise yourself, adds something positive to your mind or general attitude, helps oyu to see value in what you are doing, helps you to dev elope yourself and your skills, or you are doing something good for people in need or the community. where you must do something, anything, just for the money, and the work is dull and repetitive, meaningless and dumb, there is no value in work for itself, and you indeed would be better off spending the time by sitting lazy in the park and enjoy the wind and the sunshine. If you can afford it, sitting in a park is better than just being a number getting kicked around.

I have such a dull job myself. I'm looking forward to end my current job in late autumn (at the latest). The management of that warehouse treats emplyoees as if they are nothing more than items. But even with a good working climate, such a job would not have what it takes to give you personal satisfaction. Many of my past jobs were like that. Fortunately I had plenty of opportunities to add countering experiences to my life as well, so overall it was a balance I kept about which I would and could not complain. Things are moving here, though.

In ancient Greece, the conception of "polis" included the understanding that the single individual would/should use his life to seek excellence in one field and sharpen his talents and form his capabiltiies to contribute by them to the overall wellbeing of the community. But this is absolutely not possible for so many people today anymore, adding to lacking orientation, lacking sense of being needed or even wanted, lacking meaning in life, and as a result: frustration and either depression or aggression. If you want to see the illustration of "nihilism", just do one of these kinds of jobs. what this kind of feeling can do especially with young males, does not need further explkanation, I think.- A lot of today's juvenile violence and crime is coming from that uselessness of life. That is the reason why giving such persons orientation, a meaning, a goal to reach, works so much better in socialising them, than just violently breaking them and expect them to obey the rules of conformity of the social society.

Happy are those who do a job where they can be creative and get a feedback from their job of being needed, valued, and feeling enriched in their own experience of being alive.