What
is your purpose of doing your work?
Firstly, doing work generates passion. When we work, we
enjoy social values, values of human relationships, and economic values;
psychologically, self-confident and self-respect become strengthened.
Self-confidence is strengthened by the feeling that you are doing social
activities, which strengthens the conscious of self-existence. Then,
self-confidence and self-respect generate the energy that we call passion.
Passion is the 'power of immersion in fun and interesting
things,' which is why passionate workers seem great. The directions of this
passion have the desire for achievement as it is towards purposes and aims of
success, enhancement of academic level, social status, honor, power, and
economic strength. It is a reason we work for passion, desires for achievement,
and self-actualization. Ultimately, work generates passion and
achievement and strengthen the desire for achievement, which is the desire for
self-actualization.
Both males and females live pursuing happiness. Males
pursue future happiness whereas females pursue present happiness. Males do not
remember the feelings of wounds, but females remember them. This is very
important when working.
When going out for a meal, males just
go where they used to go or where they feel comfortable and then just order
what they will eat. On the contrary, females go to a restaurant after they
grasp the atmosphere. They think and decide what they are going to eat. When
watching a movie, females decide when, where, or what they are going to watch.
They also think about whether they are going to watch the movie before or after
having meals. However, males think about options to choose after they arrive at
the place because they get stress if not.
Males also love to talk about when they served in the
military. Females hate when males talk about soccer they played while serving
in the military; however, males always talk about the military when they hang
out with their friends or acquaintances. They enjoy talking about who had
tougher experiences when they served in the military; females cannot understand
this. When males are asked 'why don't you go to the military again if you enjoy
that much?' they would definitely say that they won't ever go back.'
Like this, males don't remember the
feelings of the past that they suffered from difficulties but only remember the
facts. On the contrary, females remember the feelings of the past that they
suffered in difficulties. Thus, males and females are different when having
emotional quarrels. In cases of males, it is fairly easy for them to make up
even if they had a big fight if one of them tries to apologize first to the
other. They can even become closer friends especially. However, females are
different. It is not that easy for females to recover relationships when they
had an emotional quarrel even if the relationship is intimate. Of course, they
can possibly pretend that they are close depending on circumstances, but the
negative emotions last long. These negative emotions might last life-long if
they are not treated. The phenomena like these occur due to
that males don't remember negative feelings of the past and that females
remember negative feelings.
The reason that males and females are
different in remembering emotions is that males live for future happiness
whereas females live for present happiness. Thus, even if the present is
suffering and difficult for males, it is not problematic if they have hopes and
dreams for tomorrow. Females, however, perceive their future is unnecessary if
they are not happy in the present. They can only think about their future when
their present is happy. Because of this, practical interests are important in
females whereas rational for duty is what matters in males.
It is the same when working. Males
work passionately if they think the outcomes will be positive. Success,
academic degrees, social status, power, economic power, etc. whatever that is,
they anticipate and think of possibility of having good outcomes and be immersed
in their work. All of them are not able to be felt in the present. On the other
hand, females get to their work when they feel the present values that are
detailed and advantageous. Females think outcomes and values of the present
more important than the uncertain possibility. Then, they are immersed in
realistic and advantageous matters. Therefore, males and females make efforts
for their self-actualization as they form passion and achievement that meet
their own happiness when working.
People
have various considerations and thoughts when working; their considerations and
thoughts can be categorized into four types.
First
is the case of working without thoughts or values. People in this category
never get stressed from their work because they don't think about their work.
Whether they work well or not is not the matter. They just think that all they
need to do is to finish what they are told to do. They don't involve themselves
in others' works and continue working their jobs unless they quit the job. They
don't feel the meanings and values of life at all because they don't worry
about the outcome of the work and don't care about the amount of their work.
People in this first category seem to live their lives without worries.
Second is the case of working without
any other choice despite the stress. Quite a lot of people are in this category.
They work for living although they hate working. Lots of females are in this
group. It is because they think gaining by present income or work is more
important than pursuing unclear values. The economic values are felt in
reality; people in this category must work even though they don't want to.
The third is the case of working as
the means for certain goals. They consider the values of human relationships
and of social activities more important than economic values; this results in
more difficulties in their work. They choose their work as the means for their
purpose and perceive it as a bridge. People working the present work for their
goals and success without any other choice are usually males.
For example, think about a
salesperson drinking alcohol with his or her connections. At this point, is
drinking a part of his or her job? or is it for personal pleasure? Of course,
the answer changes depending on the counterparty. If the counterparty is a very
important executive from the trading company, the drinking can be considered as
a part of his or her job since he or she doesn't have any other choices. Of
course, the answer changes depending on the counterparty. If the counterparty
is a very important executive from the trading company, the drinking can be
considered as a part of his or her job since he or she doesn't have any other
choices. When seeing salespeople enjoying drinking alcohol, it seems like they
are actually enjoying the moment, but in fact, they are just doing their job to
satisfy their purpose without having any personal pleasure.
Like this, you might think that
working as the means for purposes is fun if the work itself is enjoyable, but
the work itself is not a goal. Therefore, it is for a step forward one more or
the values of human relationships and the values of social activities. However,
they tend to rationalize themselves that they need to enjoy their work if they
cannot avoid it. It is just trying to enjoy the present work for values in the
future. It is the same as making an investment for values they will get in the
future because they can develop towards the next step of their goal that they
have set.
Fourth is the case of immersing in
work because they love their jobs. People in this category are those who are
deeply into their study development and those who love creating new work; they
even forget to go home. Moreover, they tend to do their work professionally.
They love their work itself and enjoy immersing in their jobs by perceiving as
if they have found the values they have been looking for. So, even without the
economic values, the values of human relationships, and the social values, they
are more and more into the fun of their work. In most cases, they immerse
themselves in their work even without that much economic value.
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