Some days you will be showered with gratitude for showing up to work and sitting in your chair, sometimes you will bend over backwards, work yourself to exhaustion, and find the beneficiary of your effort has complained to your supervisor. This is the business, this is our sacred work. All you can do is your best, and you can't do that all the time.
Be grateful for the good days but remember it's the hard days that earn you your poverty wage. Don't give up. What we do is meaningful, even on the days we don't do it particularly well.
Ken
P.s. No one complained about me today. It's just an example of what happens sometimes.
It is good work..
ReplyDeleteI often felt like that when teaching.
ReplyDeleteBut it was the kids who kept me going.
Finally my body just said, "No more."
That was due to the little tables and desks!
My mind said, "No more!"
I was working as hard as I could.
I don't think we will ever see the day that the people in the helping careers will be paid what they are worth.
Thank you for helping people who need it!
xo
Wendy
tipsynomore.blogspot.com
Ken, if your work was filled with smiling, grateful clients. Suportitive employer, and good salary. You would KNOW, it wasn't real. You are in the trenches of dirty, low paid, unappreciated work that sometime, hopefully, will result in redeamed lives. Your work places you in the company of the nobel among us. Those whose motivation is helping the least loveable among us. I've seen you do it with insight, grace, and a sweet spirit. Take heart Ken, your work has eternal consequences, and the results of your efforts may not be visible for you or those you help this side of the Jordan. Take heart brother, good to hear from you.
ReplyDeleteKen, if your work was filled with smiling, grateful clients. Suportitive employer, and good salary. You would KNOW, it wasn't real. You are in the trenches of dirty, low paid, unappreciated work that sometime, hopefully, will result in redeamed lives. Your work places you in the company of the nobel among us. Those whose motivation is helping the least loveable among us. I've seen you do it with insight, grace, and a sweet spirit. Take heart Ken, your work has eternal consequences, and the results of your efforts may not be visible for you or those you help this side of the Jordan. Take heart brother, good to hear from you.
ReplyDelete