SOME
THOUGHTS ON EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT is said to be nature’s physician . It is also
regarded as essential to human happiness. An unemployed man is an idler who
does not know how to spend his time, earn money and fulfil his requirements to
survive even physically.
Some synonyms of employment are work, business, job,
occupation, profession, trade, task, vocation, service, pursuit.
Given below are some quotable thoughts on the virtues and
benefits of employment.
Life is hardly respectable if it has no generous task, no
duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing. Every man’s task
is his life preserver.
Employment gives, health, sobriety and morals. Constant employment
and well-paid labour produce general prosperity, contentment and cheerfulness.
According to the English writer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) the safe and general antidote
against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and
seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their
fall without that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness,
because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever
shall keep his thoughts equally busy, will find himself unaffected by irretrievable
losses.
And finally, employment is one great source of enjoyment. No man properly
occupied is ever miserable.
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G. R. Kanwal
7 February 2024
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