Work and Community

Enjoyment of Working : A Necessity

There was a time when work was a factor that greatly contributed to the happiness and fulfillment of a person in his life . Such was a time when great working relationships among people in the working place - whether it is a cozy corporate office or a noisy industrial plant - instilled in them the enthusiasm to look forward to each working day . On top of the camaraderie among the workers , the purpose and daily meaning that they found in their work more than compensated for their unattractive payroll

figures . An article at New York Times written by Adam Cohen says The 1970 's were a slower age , and much of the workers ' pleasure in their jobs is related to the less demanding time clock (Internet Indeed , working during those years meant living life and enjoying each day , whether it is a working day or one 's day off from work . Working during those years afforded workers time for things that give them reasons to smile while at work . Cohen cited as examples how stewardess are required to spend time talking with the plane passengers and how a hospital worker can squeeze in his working schedule a visit to a patient who has nobody to visit him or to keep him company even just for a short while . Having time for these small things makes people appreciate other people and appreciate life as a whole . Workers during the earlier years also were proud of what they did and the roles they played in the course of doing their jobs . Indeed , many would dismiss as insignificant the work of waitresses , bookbinders and gravediggers . And yet , there are people in such jobs who see the significance of what they do and who then , find meaning in attending to their tasks in their working places - tasks that they performed in their own unique styles . Their relatively small salaries notwithstanding , workers before appreciated the work given them and their jobs largely contributed to their self-knowledge and their sense of importance

The 21st century , though , brought in the new ruthless economy (Cohen , Internet ) which transformed workers into human machines who did their jobs and duties in exchange for their pay . Cohen wrote , High tech and new management styles put workers on what the author Simon Head calls `digital assembly lines ' with little room for creativity or independent thought . As much as 4 percent of the work force is now employed in call centers , reading canned scripts and being supervised with methods known as `management by stress (Cohen , Internet ) Jobs that have become available during the past years have significantly lessened the opportunities for employees to be creative and sociable people . These days , everybody has become so busy at work the pacing of transactions and movements has likewise become stressful

Thus , there came the years when the economy flourished and things have become hectic at work all over the nation . The importance of personal relationships was set aside and almost everything then had...