Why Do We Work By Andrew Curry Analysis

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Do you ever wonder why do we work for a living? Why we spend all of our childhood and years as a young adult training our mind and body for our future workforce? Do we do it for money? For love maybe Or do we do it because we have no other choice? In the first sentence of "Why do we work" By Andrew Curry, the author states as an option that we work because we have to. I strongly disagree with that statement and here 's why. My entire life I have been told that you need to do certain things growing up in order to be successful. We are brainwashed by these words "You need to" constantly and it scares people from taking a different …show more content…

For example I could be offered the opportunity to get the job I always dreamed of but then I decline because the fear of not doing what I needed to do like finish school haunts my brain. The reason why that can be a problem is because even though I know I would do extremely well at my job there is always the fear of something going wrong and then I 'd have no other type of work due to the fact of not finishing school. Another example would be missing a family members wedding because I still needed work to be done. It 's always the precious moments that always get shot down due to the fact that people are constantly told they need to do this or that and they listen and continue to miss every single moment or opportunity in their life that could change them …show more content…

One of the facts of modern life is that a relatively small class of people works very long hours and earns good money for its efforts. Nearly a third of college-educated American men, for example, work more than 50 hours a week. Some professionals do twice that amount, and elite lawyers can easily work 70 hours a week almost every week of the year." What I see from this is nothing more than people only working long hours to receive good pay. That doesn’t mean they enjoy what they’re doing and for me I 'd rather be happy working and making decent pay then work stressful long hours and be unhappy just to receive a bigger

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