Sep 25 2009
Work Outside Your Home!
Why the big push to “work from home”? I’ve seen so many advertisements for opportunities to work from the comfort of your own home. Many of them resemble the get rich quick scheme and others follow the same strain but obscure themselves under the guise of producing a secondary income with statements like, “You won’t get rich but…” and then they hit you with stories of people making $5K or more a month and quiting their jobs.
I think America is want of ambition. What is wrong with getting up and going to work. Granted, a day would be much better spent if it were a job you loved but what’s wrong with a job that’s not so bad? After all, we are no longer required to wake up at the break of down to tend cattle, to sow and reap the fields as our forefather’s did. The back breaking labors of a free holder’s farm are no longer required of us. Have we come so far from the puritanical work ethic that any exertion should invoke waves of self-pitty and sorrow. It would appear that the clamor of grievances, lamentations and protests of the contemporary populous, so dissatisfied with their lot, would surpass that of a southern slave in the eighteenth century. There are no whips cracking, no lives being sold and bought at auction, nor any other grievous and contemptous acts with which we must contend in the modern world. Yet we are dissatisfied.
The allure of riches has so tempted us with the mirage of ease, tranquility and joy that we have undermined or even forgotten the felicity of a mean but honest life, the peace of prudence and forethought, and the gratifying contentment that follows hard labor and time well spent.
What would become of us if all could stay indoors and get rich with little effort? We would bemoan our woeful boredom and lament over the cruel whip and contemptuous fetters of the brutal task masters ease and tranquility.
