Hello everyone, in this writing I wanna talk about the concept of job and what it might and might not solve once you have it.
Job means stuff that you do regularly to get money. Money helps you survive. Therefore we might be tempted to say that job is stuff you do to survive. However, that is not entirely accurate. You might be living in an island in isolation and you might be doing stuff to survive. Yet the stuff you do does not classify as a job. Generally speaking, you have to be in the capilatistic system and be engaged with money for it to be considered a job. Then you can buy food, shelter, clothing etc. with the money you got. This system is built before we were alive and we are merely part of it as a result of our birth. In short, the job is the thing you do for money.
Job is the result of living in a capitalistic society and the idea of a job is pushed to us starting from early childhood. Our parents, society and friends all tell us that "We need a job" believing that it will somehow fix our problems. However, when you carefully consider what having a job will actually fix for you, those fixes does not go very far. I am not saying that we should not survive, obviously survival is necessary for consciousness to continue. All I am saying is don't hope too much from having a job. You will survive, which is a good start but what you are surviving for is the real question here. Job can not give you the answer to that question. Some people will claim that philosophy or religion can give the answer but I am not really convinced of that either. If there is an answer to "Why are you surviving?", only you can give the answer yourself. I mean each of us personally can give ourselves the answer. You have to be relatively convinced of your answer as well. Someone else telling you just won't do it. If you survive for god, you have to be convinced that there is a god worth surviving for. So this is my first point, job does not fix the underlying why problem.
Second point I wanna mention is that, even if you get a job, it won't fix the society as a whole. I mean you get a job but there are a lot more people that need it as well and who is gonna take care of them? Sure you got the job, rejoice for it but what about all the other applicants. What about homeless people, mentally ill or inefficient, what is gonna happen to them? You might say," I don't care, I got my job." however I feel that you should care since you are a part of the society. If you were isolated in paradise, sure, but you are a part of the system and if system goes wrong, it will affect you. It might affect you in different ways depending on who you are and the circumstances. You might get really sad because of all the misfortune in the world or someone might steal your money because they don't have enough or stuff might be too expensive for you to buy it. People will find all sort of ways to make the wrongs of system "right". So in the end, even if you get a job, it won't fix all the societal problems regarding misfortune and inequality. That should, like I said, worry you. You can come up with all sort of ways why it should worry you, depending on your persona.
These are the two reasons as to why finding a job is not fix all to all the suffering you have.
