Show All In A Day's Work By FLORENCE One of the symptoms of growing up is learning to enjoy I REMEMBER my A handsome woman with majestic carriage and the gentlest hands I ever She was totally deaf in a day when the deaf were not taught to read or She had a limited vocabulary and communicating with her was difficult formost Most of the frivolous entertainments available to us now were unknown to Those forms of play of her day were often not open to so she learned to receive real pleasure from BECAUSE could not she never understood her bookworm My mother was a reader and she passed the disease on to her One summer day my grandmother found my hiding place in the raspberry patch where I was lost in my current Unceremoniously she returned me to the kitchen where stacks of unwashed dishes MOTHER CAME to my did most of her You can't expect kids to work all the I couldn't always understand what my grandmother but I understood that HAS to Then she took my shoulders and looked into my shaking me gently to emphasize the like to You learn to like to It will make you She was I did and it MATURE PEOPLE have always known one of life's real pleasures comes from accomplishment and that always involves It comes as something of a that this truism should have become the subject of several learned studies Studs Terkel has a book out called which is a series of tape recorded interviews with 10 people who represent different THERE IS soundness and dignity in the people and the message which comes through most strongly is the pleasure they derive from such as government bureaucrats express but even this does not make them wish to be stonemason express deep satisfaction in their THE who has been told so often lately how unhappy she has been found to take delight in doing a significant job though some of them were apologetic and even guilty about this Ralph Nader's organization published a tape-recorded book which was also a series of recordings of interviews with THOUGH Nader deplored treadmill of repetitious he concluded that working people are happier than When we hear someone speaking honestly about his it is an experience we can all identify with no matter what his work We have all worked hard at something and had the thrill of seeing it done IT MATTERS not whether the job is a scrubbed and polished kitchen a successful surgical operation or climbing Mount The universal common denominator is the effort and the With that we can all In our individual millions upon millions across the world find both satisfaction and frustration in our TOO OFTEN we are told that Americans have forgotten the old fashioned work ethic and are becoming a nation of loafers and play oriented Don't you believe Most people want to give a day's work for a day's Even on-the-job frustration is preferable to continued and most given the will eventually get up and go to work on their own GOD TOLD Adam earth has been cursed for thy and we have come to expect the taste of sweat in our daily |