I like working and feel complete with a job well done, if I didn't earn it, it's not mine.
I like working and feel complete with a job well done, if I didn't earn it, it's not mine.
I think it's called the European work ethic. Both parents emigrated to the U.S. as small kids, Pa was pulled out of school in 6th grade to help feed the family (put to work in a Wisconsin shoe factory, making a whopping 16 cents an hour, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week). Ma made it to 8th grade before she was asked (told) to quit school and work as a housekeeper, also to help feed her family.
Although I'm finally retired, I never will understand all of the deadbeats out there who think the world owes them a living.
I work because I want to save money. I also want to buy grocery items, food a lot of things that I needed to survive.
Its sad because we used to be able to do all of the stuff 150 years ago for ourselves. If we wanted to eat we had to grow it or trade. Would have been nice to experience that kind of civilization.
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