My working life!
Monday to Friday..Every damn morning.. alarm suppose to bang on ma ear, I say WTF!! O shit..again I got up late..I manage to clean myself asap and trudge to work.Apparently, I swallow my ego, self esteem, pride and put up with integrity as being ordered by the boss. I sweat at my job, I toil at my job. Hell lot of question appears and bombarded on ma mind...
Why
I do the job???? bcoz
I have to? Just bcoz I need the money???? Or bcoz don't know how to live
other way or not getting any other way out?
As
we are Indians we learn since childhood how to work hard. Most of the time I
work 40 or more hours a week… And I keep working more and more. Working this
hard is sometimes weird and unnatural for me..I reckon, hunting and
gathering is a pretty relaxed way to make a living worth while... There
is no reason for us to be working so hard. As we are getting advanced in
technology help us work more productively, we should be able to work less.
Today, American workers are
ten times more productive than we Indians irrespective of working less hours .
As
I work more than eight hours a day, where did all that extra productivity go???
A lot of it went as profits into the pockets of the boss. The boss in India is
richer than any other group of people ever in the history of mankind. If we work hard or better, our
rich bosses aren't under any obligation to pay us more or let us work less.
Sadly, that's how capitalism works( though it badly sucks), but
that’s beyond my scope of work.
Buttering our boss and exploring way to impress him is humiliating. The worst is when we actually get used to being pushed
around. People like me need to be free to develop my independent selves. The
more I work, the more I
feel like dog: dull and obedient.
Good
things includes-> be with families and friends, making love, drinking beer,
clubbing, writing, reading, listening music, cooking and eating good food, etc.
These are the things that make my life rich and interesting. Life without all this make ma working life
monotonous, tedious, boring, drilling, dead, and gray.
I
know I could be free, if I want to really live ma lives worthy, if I want to
live on a healthy planet, if I want to end suffering and exploitation, I
have to learn how to work less?? How to work smart? How to earn good…
Which I am still exploring…………..
Beautiful
quotes for my pal: Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a
support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY and they meet at the bar!"