The Motivation for Work: Florence Nightengale and Ms. Bessie

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There are a lot of reasons motivating people to work, such as their happiness, interests and self-esteem. However, it is important that jobs can influence people to keep their ambitions to achieve their goals, to satisfy their basic needs and to focus on one thing with their passion. Florence Nightingale gave up financial support from her family since she had an ambition to improve England’s medical and healthcare environment in the 19th century. And during my high school, “my job” offered me a suitable chance to reach my aim, too. In “Workers” by Richard Rodriguez, undocumented physical labor who comes from Mexico works in the U.S. to earn money for their basic needs. Furthermore, in Carl Rowan’s short story, “Unforgettable Miss Bessie,” Miss Bessie, a high school teacher with a plenty of knowledge, uses her passion to educate Africa American. According to these three people and me, jobs are so important for everyone because people need some ways to satisfy their ambitions, money for basic needs and passion on doing something.

Individuals have their own goals in their lives. Their ambitions prompt them to make great efforts to achieve their senses of accomplishments. In this way, jobs are important since they can provide many ways for ambitious people to complete their goals. Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing. When she was young, she had an ambition to improve the medical environment in England. Due to her ambition, her heart told her that she had one thing to finish and should not give up. She decided to go abroad to do more researches, to give lectures, to help wounded soldiers in the Crimean War and to attend some discussions for solving this problem. Nightingale worked many years but her amb...

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... her black students and the community. In fact, she could use her knowledge to choose other easy jobs instead of a teacher. Nonetheless, if Miss Bessie didn’t work as a teacher with her passion, she couldn’t do so much for encouraging her students and impact the Africa American community.

People work for three major reasons: their ambition, basic needs and passion. Without jobs, individuals cannot reach their goals when they are ambitious to do, or solve problems of their basic needs, nor have so much passion on educating people and assisting the society to progress. Florence Nightingale, the undocumented workers, Miss Bessie and me all have experiences to realize, understand and proof the importance of jobs. In a word, people need jobs because they are vital for individuals no matter what they have any troubles, dreams and enthusiasm.

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