#5. C'mon tell me about your work! Don't make faces!

 I’ve just planned a lesson I have next week. An English lesson. I confess I like my work, though it takes an effort to carry it out. Well, I guess any job entails an effort. 

And you may like your work, or rather not. Today I wanted to write on work, an activity that may take us quite many hours a day and our best energies. 

If you don’t like your job, what can you do to carry it out and not die on the attempt? Can you carry out something you may like just a bit and at the same time you better as a person? 

Well, let me tell you a couple of things. You can try and increase and foster your professional enthusiasm and eagerness, and also you can consider you are serving your … students and their families, your customers, clients, patients, etcetera. 

My father says work dignifies you, and I can assure you I’ve learned a lot from him. Moreover, for a Christian, for a son of God, work may sanctify you, make a better person, a better son to God. 

As well you may consider, and this may help you out, that a job is not bad because you may not like it. That job is not an evil one. You may be doing much good to so many people. 

And you are free, so in some way you may change your attitude toward your labor, and eventually and subsequently you might like it more and more. 

I’m reading a book on the Apollo program to put the first men onto the moon. It was written by space historian Andrew Chaikin. You know, it’s so great what we did. Those guys were so professional. They did their work well. And they got a super goal. Don’t we have something to learn from them? Can we learn perhaps from our neighborhood street cleaner, or the milkman, or the pharmacist? Or from our colleagues at the office? Can we not smile to ourselves, to the customer I’ve got to assist right now? If you try to be more positive, you will be more positive in the end. I’ve met people who are so, and they take up daily setbacks in a more positive way, and subsequently they get more positive, and have fewer mental problems. For we are free, and can do quite much about our work. 

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