Since work is so important, as long as we meet any one of them, it is worth our efforts and struggle, and if the above four items can be met, then such work is really worth our efforts for a lifetime. Specifically:
A job that makes you happy.
Women are afraid of marrying the wrong person, and men are afraid of entering the wrong business. What kind of job is a good job? This is really inconclusive and there is no unified standard. Really suitable for everyone, everyone needs it. But one thing, a job that can make you happy is obviously a very important criterion.
Like the famous writer Cang Kejia, he is always uninterested in the field of mathematics. Every time he touches it, it seems that the sky is falling, but when he meets words, he is full of enthusiasm and passion. As soon as he touches them, he will lose control. In the college entrance examination, he got a 0 in mathematics. Because he didn't understand it at all, he only wrote 28 words in Chinese, which alarmed Wen Yiduo, then dean of the College of Literature of National Shandong University. Not only did he save the fate of failing in the college entrance examination, but his works have been praised so far and created a precedent for rural poetry.
In this way, when you come into contact with a job, it is like finding yourself in love, which is undoubtedly worth thinking and working hard for a lifetime. After all, this is your dish.
A well-paid job.
Is it wrong to talk about money at work? Obviously, this is true. Apart from the inner feelings of giving up my job, I'm afraid this is the only choice I've worked hard for all my life.
A long time ago, a 26-year-old female teacher resigned online, which once exploded her circle of friends and caused controversy. The reason for her resignation can be described in one sentence, that is, less money, more work and being far from home. That female teacher has worked for four years, but she only made it from 1 100 yuan per month to 2 100 yuan now. Except for the round-trip fare, she didn't leave a penny every day, or even put it on her hand. If you catch up with your classmates and friends to get married and have children, you can basically eat dirt this month.
Seeing this always reminds me of the sentence "I can't do anything without money". Now, "making enough money" is even harder.
A job that will keep you growing.
Kazuo inamori, a Japanese "sage of management", believes that the purpose of work is to improve people's minds. Indeed, if work is purely for making money, it is too narrow. It's true to make money, but it's a bit biased just to have money.
Sometimes, I am curious about the carpenters we often see in our daily life. What's the point of his work? I think its significance lies not only in building beautiful houses with tools and improving woodworking skills, but also in tempering people's hearts and shaping people's souls.
Besides, Jiro Ono, the god of sushi, is still making sushi in his 90s. He has a sentence that deserves our encouragement: "The spirit of a professional is to do only one thing in his life and do it to the extreme." Persistence is the best shortcut to beauty. The happiest thing in the world is that everything has become what you want through your persistence and hard work.
A job that can help the outside world
This level is relatively high. In reality, some people, even if they imagine that they are rich, still want to keep some form of "work", which shows that the purpose of work is definitely not single-dimensional. The chairman of an electronics industry donated hundreds of millions of shares he owned to a charity; An old garbage collector built a community library with the money accumulated by collecting and recycling garbage for decades.
What is their motivation to continue working? There may be many reasons, but personally, the main reason is that they want to be "useful people", whether at home, at school, in the company, in the community or in society. Like most other people, I hope that society (or home, or school, or company, or community) will become better because of my own existence and my own contribution. This may be the ultimate reason why we can work hard for it all our lives.
To sum up, any meaningful work is worth persisting in, but the meaning is different, which is almost entirely up to us.