Working

I just have to say that I really hate that most any job I am qualified to get (honestly, that's mostly office work since that's the experience I have - and you can't get a job without experience, just like you can't get experience without a job) REQUIRE you to multi-task when ALL of the current brain and happiness studies are showing that it isn't healthy to do so.  It's not even really possible, they say, to do a good job on any of the tasks one is trying to do simultaneously, and the quality of work is inversely proportional to the amount of different things you're trying to do at once.

Why are all of the jobs out there soul-killing, "just get by" work?  It's not wonder we've coped by saying that "Who you are is not what you do."  That statement doesn't make any sense at all.  Who you are may not be what you are doing, but it is, or at least has a lot to do with what you do.  For example, we say "God is love."  But we can only say that in truth if God ACTS in a loving way.  God is love because God LOVES.  Who God is, in large part, is what God does. Divorcing the two makes the "who am I?" question profoundly more difficult to answer, and it's probably why we've got lead stories in magazines like "a Step-by-Step Guide to finding and fulfilling your life's purpose."  Really?  I'm sorry, but I'm going to call bullshit.  If it were that easy, people would have, among many, many othe reasons, figured it out a LONG time ago.

It's really too bad we've accepted the idea that "working" shouldn't always be fulfilling - it's just something you do "during the day" or "to make a living."  Why isn't the goal to make a LIFE?  And, why are REALLY ok with spending more time at a place we hate or doesn't fit with who we know we are than anywhere else in life?  That's sick, and it is REALLY discouraging since, at this point in our lovely capitalist society (where you have to even pay for WATER), most people need jobs.

(Sorry, this comes with my incredible frustration at having to "sell myself" when really, THEY are the ones that want to hire, THEY should be telling ME why I should chose to work for THEM and STILL constantly being turned down or away for jobs I don't even like but am OVER-qualified for in really rude, sometimes completely unacceptable ways.  I don't want to work for ANYONE anymore if this is how they treat people, even their "lowly" applicants).