Thursday, June 1, 2006 Putting Down A Honest Day's Work
Do you mind if I rant for a few minutes? Okay good.
This has really been bugging me and if I know my audience I think it will bug you too.
Why is it that Hollywood, books, newspapers, etc, treat or portray people with "unorthodox" jobs like lepers or scum?
For example. I clean houses for a job. I enjoy it, it pays well, it needs to be done, and there is plenty of work available. Yet in most movies you watch a housekeeper, maid, or housecleaner is portrayed as a low-life, college drop-out, person who isn't smart enough to do anything better. Waiters and Waitresses are treated the same way (and speaking of that, check out how people treat a waiter the next time you are in a resteraunt). The people who are doing these necessary jobs all around us are under appreciated, treated like losers and frowned upon by society!
I've even been in the company of some people who laugh at the housekeepers at motels, call them race-related names that their momma should have washed their mouth clean of, and yet who keeps their room tidy and ready for them?
The same goes with any other person who works at a job that doesn't involve medicine, sitting at a desk, or a title to their name.
Why does America feel that it is their right to step on the little people that make this nation work?! Without the plumber, the electrician, the general repair man, the maids, the waiters, the mechanic, the farmer!!!, the truck drivers, the rancher, the carpenter, the builder... Without all these America as we know it would fall apart.
Now I know of an exception to the rule here. There is a TV show on the Discovery channel that I applaud for getting broadcast! It's called Dirty Jobs and the host travels round the country to places where someone has said that they have one of the dirtiest jobs. And then he spends an entire day helping with their job and showing the world what it takes to do that job. As he's said many times, he had NO idea what all was involved in, for example, being able to buy a package of mushrooms at the grocery store. I for one have a better appreciation for all the work involved in that! (and I feel the need to wash my mushrooms better from now on... - lol)
I guess I've come to the heart of my rant. America lacks appreciation. We feel that we deserve this or that, or that we are entitled to it. We don't appreciate what we do have and we aren't thankful for it. America is a spoiled child, and just like that little kid throwing a tantrum in the grocery store cause he can't have candy, it makes me sick.
So to all of you out there reading this, enjoy your job, find happiness and fulfillment in the place God has put you in and do your best for Him! And be proud of being the "little man". I tip my hat to you.
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