Who need job?

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

The persons who have been working in any offices think that their job is not good for them as human habit performs. They think that the duty what they have been given is always burdensome for them and payment is always less. They have unlimited wants and the resource is limited so there is always a tussle between want and resource what they have. On the other hand, they have compared their situation along with others; maybe they have earned more or less; or maybe they are less/more skillful or educated; workers have been lacking something in their life irrespective of their need. People do duty to be sustained whereas they are reluctant to accept their duty as duty; rather they are always dissatisfied with their job and payment.

The main tussle can be seen with limited resources and unlimited wants or desires. The language of economics has divided need and want into two factions. They seem same but their meaning is just opposite. Need means the ability to pay to get something; want means something you can expect without your paying capacity. The persons have been guided by want, hence they are always ambitious and unsatisfied. It has been guiding them to be rebellious. As a result, they have got dissatisfied with the work what they have been doing. Unless workers can’t realize their limitations, they can’t get benefit from the work.

People can’t deny work as it has connection to their overall aspects of life. They work to be engaged and to get some money for sustenance. Neither would they remain idle; they don’t have anything to take meal, or to wear clothes, or to fulfill their basic needs. Why do they have such hatred to the work they have done? What may be the satisfying factor to them? Since time immemorial humans have been searching peace, happiness, prosperity etc. However, they can’t get it at any cost of being dissatisfied. When there is the development of the individual property which is the creation of modern world has put them in problem.

People work due to compulsion when they don’t have any possibility. They work for double benefits: to be rescued from idleness and to earn for their living. Skills, techniques, education, ability set their limitation. Human habit is that they want to work less and earn more which is a controversial factor of human subject. Skills, techniques, education and ability set limit to the ambition to earn more. In spite of various limitations, they are unable to understand it and are dissatisfied.

Unless they can’t identify the tussle of need and want, there is always a conflict between these two factors. People have started to work for the need; rather they exercise to meet their want. Their want is never fulfilled but need forces them to work. They have recognized their limitations with the skills, techniques, ability and education which they can’t apply in practice so are ambitious. Still they have tried to get much more than others guided by sub-conscious mind irrespective of limitations. Their conscious mind would work in search of job, while doing job their sub-conscious mind would work. Thus, we can find conflict between duty and ambition.

Workers need work to sustain themselves and their family whereas they have the habit of ignoring their duty frequently. They have tried to exchange with ambition or money. Those who have forgotten duty throughout the month would need money at last and the conflict would arise. The only way out is struggle, tussle, misunderstanding etc that invites conflict. Being rational animal we should have taken our duty as duty. We shouldn’t have the habit of fantasizing at the time of need. It makes us more irresponsible and we can’t get more unless we don’t work on time.

We should respect our work as it is pursuing by our need. If we can’t respect work it doesn’t provide anything. To get something from work we should fulfill our responsibility first. Hence, work is important for employer and employee. When their need comes to agreement they are ready to work. The need of both parties have released reliable outcome; then the work is done. If the workers neglect the work, it won’t have positive outcome; the employer should seek alternative which may not be in favor of workers.

The workers would feel that they could get work everywhere; however they don’t feel their limitations. It is said that skill, techniques, expertise, education are the pillars of work; these things only aren’t sufficient for us. If we quit job in one place and be engaged in other place, we will be new. We may have experienced but we can’t keep with the work due to new environment. We are novice in new place so that we have to begin from the beginning. On the one side, we are raw to the place and we can’t get grades and other benefits. The new place is new from all points of view.

In this way, workers and employer should have consideration that their decision of sub-conscious mind would be defective. Mostly, the workers should be conscious about the possible defects which have multiple effects. Employer establishes industry but it depends on employee to make it successful or failure. It’s a political or popular belief that the employers exploit employee. The consequence affects employee very much if the work industry is shut down. I have read a news on Kantipur Daily last time. Some clothe manufacturing company was closed by the employee in Bara district. The newspaper further wrote that the employee were out of work. There was a woman whose children would go to school without taking meal. They would ask leave in the school to go home at day time. The children made it clear that their mother would come home only at 12.00pm so they should go to home to take meal when the mother prepared meal. The teachers also stated that most of the children would come to school without meal. Hence, the condition of employee is too bad.

It’s a natural rule that the person who has invested would get some benefit in capitalistic society as s/he has invested money and time taking risk. However, the employees think that they have done for employer not for themselves. Hence the thought should be changed outrightly. The employer can close industry as it can’t be operated whereas employee can’t remain starved even one time a day. Though there is bilateral relation, the most sufferers is the employee. So we should respect work and fulfill our duty duly along with the need.