Working
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” -Confucius
In the novel Working by Studs Terkel, people discuss their jobs and express how they feel about their jobs. One woman named Pauline Kael talks about her job as a film critic for the magazine The New Yorker. When discussing her job she says, “I consider myself one of the lucky ones because I really enjoy what I do. I love my occupation. But I’ve spent most of my life working at jobs I hated. . . I do think most people work at jobs they mechanize them and depersonalize them” (Terkel 155). This quote shows how Pauline did not stay at her other jobs that did not make her happy and she did not pursue happiness within her jobs. Instead, she decided that she was going to take action and that required her to find a job that truly allowed her to create her own happiness. Pauline mentions in her mini-autobiography how when she worked at her previous jobs she would get headaches all of the time and working at her old jobs would make her feel rotten inside because she was so unhappy. Finally when she found a job that she truly loved, she was able to create happiness all while maintaining a job. Her job as a film critic has allowed her to create happiness rather than waiting to be happy and pursuing happiness in another job she knew she would never like. In her days as a film critic she was so happy that she felt as though she never had to work a day in her life.
In the novel Working by Studs Terkel, people discuss their jobs and express how they feel about their jobs. One woman named Pauline Kael talks about her job as a film critic for the magazine The New Yorker. When discussing her job she says, “I consider myself one of the lucky ones because I really enjoy what I do. I love my occupation. But I’ve spent most of my life working at jobs I hated. . . I do think most people work at jobs they mechanize them and depersonalize them” (Terkel 155). This quote shows how Pauline did not stay at her other jobs that did not make her happy and she did not pursue happiness within her jobs. Instead, she decided that she was going to take action and that required her to find a job that truly allowed her to create her own happiness. Pauline mentions in her mini-autobiography how when she worked at her previous jobs she would get headaches all of the time and working at her old jobs would make her feel rotten inside because she was so unhappy. Finally when she found a job that she truly loved, she was able to create happiness all while maintaining a job. Her job as a film critic has allowed her to create happiness rather than waiting to be happy and pursuing happiness in another job she knew she would never like. In her days as a film critic she was so happy that she felt as though she never had to work a day in her life.