a Journey of Work

  So, you are a resource. It is miserable, yes? Well, what can be done about it? You cannot change the way a company sees you, changing that perspective is going to cost more than replacing you with a less pretentious resource. No, you need to accept that you have a certain value to your employer. Try to be very pragmatic on this. How much to do you contribute to their end goals? What would really take to replace you? Knowing precisely what your value is to the people you work for will help you navigate your work life with less frustration, you will have more realistic expectations.             The other thing to know is what you are actually worth. There is a lot of you that your company simply has no need of. I have a decade of experience in ministry, and advanced theological training. Some of the experience translates to the retail world I currently work it, but some of the experience and nearly all of the training has n...

You are a resource to be used up and discarded. The companies like to think they can make you believe otherwise, but no amount of cheap amusement, petty gifts, or token examples can cover over the plain fact that they do not care about you as a person. If they cared they would pay you as a person and not as resource.  The only way you ever be treated with real dignity is to become such a valuable resource that the people who would hire you have no choice but to comply with that demand. Very few of us will ever be so valuable. It is possible that none of us will have any value at all someday. Are psychical ability replaced by machines, our intellects replaced by computers, and our souls discarded as useless waste. All that is left to us is our capacity to consume. That is the one indispensable value which has no alternative in the economy. Yet even as a consumer we are only a resource to be used-up. We are made to consume what is offered, not offered what we want to consume. The man...