Friday Fish Wrap: April 16, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 18:29 I’ve been reading Timothy Egan’s ‘The Worst Hard Time’ - which is all about the Great Depression viewed from the sooty blackness of the Dust Bowl. We all have occasion to think we’ve got it rough, but the days around the Oklahoma panhandle during the mid-1930’s gave rough a whole new meaning.
Those people were the real survivors, and not the self-important, wanna-be celebrities on a ‘reality’ show.
But I got thinking about work. Today was a bit of a back breaker, and I came home really tired. But, it was satisfying tired. We did good things and we did it well - as a team all dedicated to making something work.
Work is rejuvenating, no matter what kind of work it is. Even better, it sometimes pays the bills.
I’ve had all manner of jobs down through the years, and I thought they were all valuable - whether it was making the ads for the chain drug store in Fulton, Missouri (paid position), or being the national spokesperson for a high-profile and history-making news story (unpaid position). I did my best and it was good.
Where is this leading? That everybody should be working.
