The Luxury of time
Mom,
yes daughter what was it like working back in the nineteen forties? Oh
child we didn’t have all that you all have today. All of the modern
conveniences today, makes it easy. When I was very young my mother took
sick with a deadly disease, my oldest sister Queen and I would have to get
up way before day and make a fire for the family. After we got the fire
fix in the stove we would fix breakfast for our father pack his lunch and
get him off to work. He would start out walking way before day; his job
was around six miles one way.
Then
we would get our other brothers and sisters ready for school. Around six
o’clock in the morning raining or shining we would start walking to work.
My job was around three miles one way, I remember some morning it was so
cold, when I would reach my job I felt as if I was froze. Never the less,
we work and worked hard.
We
didn’t have the opportunity to get an education, like you all have today.
So because of lack of skills our jobs only paid us two dollars a week. We
would work all of the week and when we came home on Friday we would give
our father fifty cents of that.
There
is no excuse not to do a good job in these days, no excuse. When you can
go right outside and turn on your cars and let it warm up and turn on the
heat and drive to work, or you can walk right out to the nearest corner
and catch the city bus.
So
many times today we make excuses for our poor performance. We place very
little value on time. If we are careless with time it will slip away.
It is important today to recognize the opportunities that we have as
Americans have and value our jobs and the wages we earn.
Your
job may or may not be what you want, but remember that there are many
people that would love to trade places with you. Work is an honor, not a
chore. Many have slept on the streets of our nations due to loss of
employment. So before we complain think how fortunate you are.
In
our culture we are able to go on jobs that have some kind of comfort. Just
look around, you, I’m sure you can find something to understand that we as
a people have excess whether extravagant or lavishness. We have a place we
can call work.
Never
Give Up-Never!
