Sadly, in our technological, impersonal, and avaricious consumer society, people merely hold on to jobs. They put in their time, leave at the five o'clock bell, pick up their pay checks, and leave the whole business behind them. Work, for so many, becomes a necessary evil. They go at it grudgingly, at best resignedly. It is hard to fault them; the stressful conditions and uncertainty under which so many workers labor force them into an adversarial relationship with their occupations and employers. Robert Dykstra
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When we live in a time of technology and machines, we often forget the value of hard work. When we look at our society today, we see people taking jobs for the paychecks and not for the pride of doing a good job. We see people working for the money and not for the love of what they do.

Source: She Never Said Goodbye

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