journal 5

Recently, I learned a lecture from Compass; it talks about how to start career consideration at the beginning of the semester. Thinking about why people need a job is the main idea of this journal. Some people hold the idea that people work because they need money to live. But I want to mention that there are some other reasons that people work.
Most people are willing to work for various reasons other than the basic necessity of surviving and supporting families. Working enables people to achieve sense of self satisfaction as well as to benefit the society. The choices for jobs are various, some people try to earn more money, while some other people emphasis their efforts towards what they are interested in.

Basically, most people work to realize their self value and enjoy happiness of success. This is also what I learned. After studying over years, they are eager to apply what they have learnt from books into practice. More specifically, most people would like to do something pragmatic rather than merely receiving theoretical information. In this case, working provides people an opportunity to embody their self value and through working, people are able to approach their dreams. For example, my father has always dreamt of owning a company. At the beginning, he worked as a sales clerk in a small scale company. After several years of working and accumulating experiences, he finally founded his own company and gradually made his dream come true.

A further reason is that, as an integral component of a society, it is everyone’s responsibility to work. After years of industrious study, individual is seems like to be anxious to do something useful in reward of the society. Some people may want to work in the government so that they can participate in the decision making which may benefit the whole nation. Some people may tend to be involved in education so as to contribute to improve average education level and also provide aptitude work force for the future. People in different professions have the same desire to devote themselves to the society.
Thus, everyone works not only for their own sake, but also for the society. They are making efforts to realize their self value of putting knowledge to practice and achieving success. In another aspect, they are also fulfilling their self value of doing something beneficial in reward of the society.