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By Adam, March 15, 2010 5:14 pm

The nature of any significant society is that different people complete different jobs. Inevitably, though, the different jobs people have will cause them to have different lifestyles, due to differences in money, workload and stress rates. A doctor wouldn’t be capable of telling the difference between a Houston contract warehouse and a Houston 3PL, just as a store worker wouldn’t be able to educate the doctor of how to complete a triple bypass operation. No doubt the education level of the doctor would be greater and the physical strength of the store man would be higher. But is it our job that causes us to have the lifestyle we do, or are we naturally pre-disposed to have a certain kind of job?

This question has an underlying premise which may be incorrect. It assumes that we are all in jobs which we like, which can be safely concluded to not be the case. Many people are presently working in jobs they did not want to do when they were children, thinking of how they would be living their lives. Many have also received education in an area different to the place they are working in, and most of us have dreams of some day leaving our jobs and doing what we deep down want to.

Although we exist in a so-called advanced society, these problems have never been dealt with to any significant extent, we simply see them as the way the world is. Everyday we’re given a new piece of technology that costs more money, that we’ll need to work harder and longer to pay for, and that will inevitably crash and cause more stress like every other product we own. Isn’t it about time someone set out to create a product that made us have to workload less, or made our work easier?

You might think that things like machinery and vehicles have made the work of people like loggers or those undertaking physical jobs much easier, and they have to a certain extent. But the people who use these items don’t see any gains, they still have to work for the same amount of time. The benefit is only seen by the bosses, who gain the profits of the increasing amount of work that can be completed. If a machine were invented that made something easier, can you imagine a boss allowing staff to work less due to the new invention?

The reason no product that actually reduces workload is invented is because such a device would hurt the system we currently have set up, or at least those on the top of the system. If we had more time to pay attention and didn’t have to work so much, we might start to begin seeing areas of life that are freely available to all. This would be very bad for the economy!

It’s time to take a look around and realize the things in our lives that are and are not important. How much cash we can make should be at the very end of the line, with human emotions at the front.