Why Work?

For three months now, I have been employed, and this is a humbling experience not to achieve my goals and expectations in my work: simply because I feel that I should deserve better. With all the beefing up I did to attain a college degree, isn't it time for me to reap what I have sown? Then why am I still "tilling the soil" and living on a marginal wage?

These questions bother me. But I admit, I am still fathoms away from the "educational standard" of Canada. I am not smart at all, am I am an inexperienced whelp struggling to flap its wings but unable to fly. In the meanwhile, I bunked in the hole where I labor for hours and days. Oh how I wish I could have a better job, but still, I am not good enough.

My pride gets over me because of the nature of job. I work... but for what? Hearing last Sunday's gospel, a passage helped me think over the questions in my mind.

Jesus said:

"Do not work for food that cannot last,

but work for food that endures to eternal life,

the kind of food the Son of Man is offering you,

for on him the Father, God himself, has set his seal."
John 6:27

It is because of lust of money that drives people crazy over work. People like to earn more for equal or less work. but as Catholics, we should actually work not for the sake of gathering money or fame, but for personal sanctification and ultimately, the salvation of souls. Considering my work is trivial compared to those in the offices, I still find it humbling and trying me in a crucible, removing all bad intentions, so that my work will not be for the love of money, but for the love of God.

We should all seek God, especially at work, where the world is built upon. let us sanctify the world, and work for the bread of everlasting life.

‘I am the bread of life.

He who comes to me will never be hungry;

he who believes in me will never thirst.’
John 6:35b