Your job is an illusion. It is make-believe. It makes you believe that you're secure--like what they say about a job "security." You can look forward to your salary every 15th and end of the month. The thought that money is coming every two weeks is what we're made to believe as "security." We cling to that idea so strongly that we fear letting go. Our whole lives and the lives of our loved ones depend on it.
It's easier to just get a job than risk doing a business you're not sure about. With a job, someone pays you--and he is obligated by law to pay you and provide some benefits. With a business, no one is obligated by law to look after you. You're on your own. And most of us are uncomfy about that. We want to blame somebody or run to somebody for security. Once we get a job, we feel everything is taken care of. Your job is an illusion.
In return for such "security" we trade off our entire lives. We willingly allow ourselves to be enslaved. Our jobs define our daily lives--what time we get up and sleep, what days we spend with our families, who we spend our days with most of the time, how much we can spend a month--in fact in our lifetime, what we prioritize, how we define life, how we spend our summer time, etc. Everything is dictated by our job description. In fact, what college course our children can take, and even the kind of life they will have, and their children and grandchildren--except if someone among them decides to put a stop to all that and break the curse.
Yeah, we're willing to give up everything for our jobs just to receive a meager monthly pay. We think life is worth just a monthly salary. We allow our jobs to control our whole lives, and the lives of our loved ones, like some god we offer all our valuables just to give us some bread on our dinner table, and we even offer our families as sacrifice. We may deny this, but you can always look at things this way--if you're open-minded.
Employment Trap
Employment Trap
I've seen people sell everything they have and leave their families behind to work abroad. They endure being away from their families for months, even years, losing the wonderful opportunity to be with their growing up kids and guiding them. Some of them end up having an illicit romantic affair there while away from their spouses, or else have their spouses back home commit the same. Meanwhile, their children suffer everything.
Growing up kids need the presence of their parents more than they need money. Those years will never happen again and once you lose those vital years being with them, you risk losing your kids as well. You may be able to send them to a good school, but your role as a parent to them is of utmost importance--more important than the best schools possible. Your absence at such times makes your kids lose something essential from their person. The illusory promise of employment abroad makes everything seem okay as long as money is made. TV commercials about children looking happy and growing up right while their parents are abroad are just propaganda. They seldom happen.
Worse, some of those leaving home to work abroad are illegally recruited and end up deported, the money they loaned to work abroad forfeited. They go home totally bankrupt.
For those who employ locally, the hectic hours in the office divert their attention from their real needs. All along, through years of employment they don't realize that they're just being used. The illusion of "self-fulfillment" is further enhanced by salary, salary increase, promotion, and benefits. But they're youth and energy--which should've been applied for their own sole benefit--has been given to someone else for long years. They start living their own lives at age 60 or 65 when what they have left of themselves are leftovers. You see, your job is an illusion.
Well, there are those who are fitted for employment. They do not have any imagination about how they can own their lives without having to work for someone else. But the majority of us, we were made for something more challenging. If you've realized how your job is an illusion, start redeeming your time--with God's help.
Growing up kids need the presence of their parents more than they need money. Those years will never happen again and once you lose those vital years being with them, you risk losing your kids as well. You may be able to send them to a good school, but your role as a parent to them is of utmost importance--more important than the best schools possible. Your absence at such times makes your kids lose something essential from their person. The illusory promise of employment abroad makes everything seem okay as long as money is made. TV commercials about children looking happy and growing up right while their parents are abroad are just propaganda. They seldom happen.
Worse, some of those leaving home to work abroad are illegally recruited and end up deported, the money they loaned to work abroad forfeited. They go home totally bankrupt.
For those who employ locally, the hectic hours in the office divert their attention from their real needs. All along, through years of employment they don't realize that they're just being used. The illusion of "self-fulfillment" is further enhanced by salary, salary increase, promotion, and benefits. But they're youth and energy--which should've been applied for their own sole benefit--has been given to someone else for long years. They start living their own lives at age 60 or 65 when what they have left of themselves are leftovers. You see, your job is an illusion.
Well, there are those who are fitted for employment. They do not have any imagination about how they can own their lives without having to work for someone else. But the majority of us, we were made for something more challenging. If you've realized how your job is an illusion, start redeeming your time--with God's help.
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