Never forget what you are working for!
My father, an insurance agent in Ohio, was a man who woke before the sun and came home far after it set on most days to try to provide for his family. But he had a great mentor who told him to "never forget what you are working for". In my Dad's case, this was his family. He never missed a game, a show, or anything else his kids thought important. I think that focus on "WHY" is important to carry us through challenging times in our worklives.
At Jobcase I have a couple: 1) like my father, I too am working for my kids and 2) like every other employee of Jobcase - I feel a tremendous commitment to the mission of empowering working folks in the USA (and eventually Globally). Its not easy out there and its getting tougher - but if we have a platform that can provide real-time on-demand connections where people help people, where info is curated without clutter, and tools make managing our worklives better organized, free and openly accessible - then we can all have MUCH higher chance of succeeding in our work - for whatever we are working for. These 2 missions drive me to also be in before the sun rises and often return home much after it sets. And it definitely gets me through the plethora of tough times that the entrepreneurial road brings.
Those are my 2. What are yours? What are you working for?? And do you find it the proper source of motivation to get through the tough times, and to enjoy the good times all the more?
Apparently no damn reason at all , I work my bones to breaking point and my body to its limits and I'm half way young and have nothing but a lot of heart ache to show for it ,I don't have anyone to back me be there or give two craps what happens to me or a way in hell to go back to school or can find a job were I can do more than scrape by in life and help me earn real wages !!! So no offense not that you'd like millions of people care to help those who are good people with rough lives get anywhere , but I'm glad he gone good and had someone to love and be there in his good and bad times but I don't care to hear a story of someone else success that won't be able to do the same for me , in no way trying to sound mean horrible or greedy but some of us out here have not a crap any many ways and would love a kind soul so show that we are people too how work hard and try and to make life better but things hold us to far back and down to get anyway it isn't what u know anymore these days but whom you know !!!!!!! So before you talk of looking back look at present then past and then future and then back were you sit , must be nice to try and sit here high on bullshit and that all who posted a damn thing on here , I work 3 damn jobs and have no time to try to go to earn what I know I can anyone fault but my own ,no, but people should stop to notice others and not just themselves. You in s suit talking all this stupid childish idiotic antics go to the mirror slap yourself once for u twice for others and three times for this lame post ..regrets shit here's a regret I read this dumb shit other than that I can't say its a regret but I can say I rather made better choice's in people as friends and etc and a better family.. Want to show you care or like you understand other help the needy or others who may need better jobs acquire them and stop rambling on about yourself and you who posted as well you , dick dickersons !!!!!! Have a nice blessed day !!!!
Fred, I just read some other comments and you were so polite, never even think about regrets, you're doing what I discussed in my comment, working as hard as you can to achieve that Win, Win, Win. Nobody knows your motives or what's going on in your head! The only important thing is making a very focused attempt at what you feel is the right thing to do. At the end of the day, you spend time with you're family, help other's, and regrets are simply wasted periods of time that prevent you from continuing to move forward with an even better future.
I'm working for my mom to be proud and happy with me and for my man and I to have a family and a life one day to have something nice
I work for me. Sounds selfish but it is not. I did the 60+ hours work thing for 40 years. One day I woke up knowing the physical demands were becoming greater than I could do much longer. I decided to fulfill a life long dream and become a college graduate. At age 61 I went to college. Now at age 66 I have both a BS and an AAS and next year will have a BAS degree to go with them. January 2017 I start my Master’s degree in Political Science-International affairs. Now I can nap if I want, work as needed, take weeks off to ride my motorcycle and travel. Play with my dogs and generally live with much less stress. My goal in all this is was to do something I have always wanted to do, but in doing my dream, help others along the way to my goal. I can say I am satisfied.
I work for me. Sounds selfish but it is not. I did the 60+ hours work thing for 40 years. One day I woke up knowing the physical demands were becoming greater than I could do much longer. I decided to fulfill a life long dream and become a college graduate. At age 61 I went to college. Now at age 66 I have both a BS and an AAS and next year will have a BAS degree to go with them. January 2017 I start my Master’s degree in Political Science-International affairs. Now I can nap if I want, work as needed, take weeks off to ride my motorcycle and travel. Play with my dogs and generally live with much less stress. My goal in all this is was to do something I have always wanted to do, but in doing my dream, help others along the way to my goal. I can say I am satisfied.
I worked in the DC area for many years giving everything to my job. I lost touch with my wife and children in the process in my 6 to 7 days a week 14 plus hours a day. Then in 2008 the financial crisis came along and I was out of a job. Those many hours of free service (I was salary) were for nothing. When it came down to it the only loyalty was on my part. I was devastated and could not find a job and my family was estranged to me by this time. We went through some tough times over the next year and we lost a lot but we used that time to come together. My kids told me they did not mind losing the nice house or the nice things, they were glad to have me around for once. We had to move away to another location when I found a new job but things are so much better. I learned through this what is important and who is loyal and neither one of those are the company you work for. When things get tough they toss you out on your butt and close the door. Just hope you have not gone so far that your family has done the same. I really like my job and like the company I work for very much, but I love my family and they are now and always will be number one priority in my life. I leave at a decent hour and arrive home at a decent hour too, like clockwork. If I am late they worry now and before they really never expected me. Ball games and shows can never take the place of leisure time, fishing, a walk, or just sitting down and having a talk about nothing and everything. I make half what I once made and am 10 times happier now than I was then, and so is my family. I am happy to say that my wife and I have fallen in love again and it is great, especially after 25 years. Wake up guy, money is not the answer and you can't take it with you. Family is forever and the love you share is what lasts long after you are gone. Enjoy your cruises and planned vacations. I will be happy camping or just hanging out with the family, and I bet I have more fun too.
Dear Fred:
You said it yourself. It's getting tougher! It's great that you can work from dawn to dusk daily, but a lot of employers are stressing workers out because they're not getting the R&R that they need to get energized to gear up for the next day. Boss has cut back on job creation, relied too heavily on overtime instead of hiring more workers, and, as we saw a year ago, more people are getting disgusted and giving up on looking for work. The economy is suffering as a result because more people have tighter budgets, so they're eating out less & spending less on luxuries. It struck me that following the last big Hillary poll, most 35-64-year-old Democrats didn't even bother to show at the polls because they're disaffected. Washington hasn't been paying attention to them for a long time. It's just beginning to translate into apathy because the ins had been continuously good at sugarcoating the facts and selling the story that they wanted to sell to the American people. After all, Hillary won the Chinese & Korean Americans. She lost WHITES! If you enjoy working 16-hour days, & boss still lets you take time off when you need it, don't quit! Count your blessings! Your boss is a rarity today. We need him in Washington, not Donald Trump!
Sincerely,
Cy
I am working for my husband and myself-he is permantely disabled now, so I went back to school (and will be going again) , have a new degree in Healthcare and am starting on Career # 2. There have been times when motivation has been absent, when I wonder if I can do this (after all I'm not 30 anymore). But Faith and family (my hubby, adult son and sister in CA) keep me moving forward. It won't be easy starting out again, but nothing in this life is. I keep my eye on the prize and for me know God is always with me cheering me on.
Yea I've been doing the same thing for it seems like forever! Not that job but really does it matter what job. Now from experience work and no play ain't always good, just to get away for a couple days somewhere so you can forget about everyday problems. So you can come back refreshed and be able to have a better understanding, it's like driving to work every day, and on your day off you go shopping and maybe catch your self going the same way you went to work, lol, means you need a day off!'well anyway probably off the topic, I work to survive to help others and have a few good times along the way!
I.m was working for walmart but I quite on Sunday of last week ok neva browm