| Show eee e e Why We Do What We Do Dohy Doby by hy M. M K IC THOMSON Ph rh D. D e tee tete eee I WHY WE WORK AT A JOB OST of us work because we are MOST M driven to It by the time sheer necessity nees necessity sity of ot earning our dally daily bread breuel The particular Job Is usually a matter matter mat mat- ter of accident We drift Into a Job and somehow hon hang on Sometimes we ve dont don't even en hong hang on If the Job Is altogether altogether al al- together distasteful to us w we e keep kelp shifting from one thin thing to another till we happen huppen to 10 strike something that thatIs Is more to our II liking king or realizing the hazards of being out of work worl we learn to like the Job sufficiently to keep from getting fired Now and then theo a 0 fortunate Individual appears who knows exactly what he be wants to do has the gift for fur It and andIs andis Is lucky enough to land the Job This Is more likely to happen huppEn In the case of those who spend a n lot of time preparing pre paring themselves for a 11 definite task With the great majority finding the right Job joh Is a haphazard affair and Is almost wholly determined by chance In our day dreams we e often picture ourselves financially Independent with plenty of leisure t to play ploy around as os the time Idle rich In the time movies 1111 If It work enters enters en en- the time picture at all It co comes corines III 18 as a relief to too ton much frivolity trl and Is of ot otIn nn an Interesting sort most decidedly MJ IU and eminently successful I Once Ollre In a great while even ln this sort of a dream conies comes true A man In InI inherits I Its hot a fortune and Immediately thrown up UI his Job jub Of course timers there are instances of nf a n man mamma keeping I right righton II It I en on n with his Job iii after he has hns earned l or Inherited n u lot lit of money mosey und and Is n nl na t under the necessity of working for n s living In such n II case the Job Joh Is thor thur- enjoyed or else Ilse It II has haR become o e ull In the life Irl of the I r lIn that thai he would feel lull lost 1 with whim I ut sat It II I oZ rt bt b Syndicate t I ti 11 i O |
