Whatever Moha

What if he loves what he does?

I have a soft,compassionate (or probably pitying) side that goes out for older people who do jobs that I think are too minimal for them, like LRT ticket sellers, valet, drivers and most specially, grandmoms who sell on streets or work as laundrywomen in order to provide for their grandkids. I find it sad that they reach old age, but not achieve success in a career.

I was in Marina (restaurant in Davao) yesterday for lunch when I saw a gentle-looking old man serving tables. I thought to myself, “kawawa naman that’s still his job”. And after a few minutes it came to me,

what if he loves what he does? what if he works with so much love and passion for his job? That doesn’t make him kawawa!

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how important it is to have a job that I love. And I realized that it is hardly what you do but how you feel/see what you do. The rewards of being able to labor for something a person loves is a great privilege, a blessing.

I post this here to remind myself the importance of attitude in working. I really wanna be able to do what I love (which I am pretty much still trying to figure out what). And I think I should give people more respect for whatever they do, no matter how minimal it may seem because I wouldn’t really know if it was something they love to do anyway.

Genius Steve Jobs said it, ‘You’ve got to find what you love’.