J.O.B.

J.O.B. (Just Over Broke?)

While commuting to work one day on the train, ironically, I hear four older women complaining about their “jobs”. I began to question myself and where and what I would rather be doing at that age instead of complaining about a dead-end “job”. Let’s dissect the word job for a moment. Someone once gave the acronyms for the word that were both quite fitting and amusing. The word job is short for ‘just over broke’! Wow! Talk about an epiphany.

Back to the women on the train, while listening to their conversation, there were two things that was a constant frustration variable with all four women about their job and that was their money (or lack thereof) and appreciation. There are two arguments that are to be addressed here and those are: are most employees expecting too much from their employer or are most employers expecting too much from their employees? Given that I have had the opportunity to be on both sides of the situation, I can give an unbiased opinion for both.

From an employee stand point, there is absolutely no way in the world that any company (no matter how big or small) can pay a dedicated employee what they are worth. All the bonuses, company cars, pay increases, vacations, or anything else could never satisfy an employee’s total desire to be independently free. The reason is that with a job your time is now owned by whoever writes your check. You have a certain time you have to be there and a certain time that you can leave. As for an employers’ standpoint, there is no way that a company can pay a very valuable asset to the company everything that they are worth unless they are not looking to profit themselves. It’s going to be either more time or money that is going to be requested from the employer by the employee and if an employee is unable to work and provide a service for the employers’ business, then what will you as the employer do?

In conclusion, in the job situation as a whole, all involved parties need to keep the acronym in mind that a job is exactly what it states, ‘just over broke’. When you keep that in focus, you will have much more peace in your life because you will stop placing so much focus on things that will never be more than what they are, just stop trying to fit that square in to your circle.