What Does It Mean To Have A "Good" Job; (plus a little secret)

What Does It Mean, To Have A "Good" Job?

For the sake of this article, the following definitions are applied:

JOB - A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.

GOOD - Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor

If you come from a place where there are absolutely no jobs, ANY job might be considered a good job.

If you are homeless, hungry and unemployed, you might also feel that any job would be a good job.

The same may also be true if you live in the deeply rural or urban setting.

Here are a few other observations:

If you are used to living on the income from a ten dollars an hour job, a fifteen dollar an hour job probably seems pretty good, a twenty dollar an hour job even better and a twenty-five dollar an hour job as near nirvana (that's $50 k per year before taxes).

If you are used to living on $50 k per year, you probably consider it just ok, and the $100 k is your idea of a real, good job.

If you make over $100 k per year, the truth is, it's ALL gravy. Any whining about your laboring is just spittle on your shirt.

Across the bottom lines, most Americans would agree that a GOOD JOB is one that allows you to keep nutritious food on the table, a roof that doesn't leak over your head, the utilities paid on time and a moderately extravagant lifestyle (home theaters, vacations, boats, fancy weddings, RVs, etc).

This GOOD JOB is part of the American Dream. Many experience it, many do not, and many lose it after attaining it.

Even now, in 2007, many Americans raise families on $50 k per year, or less. Some of them (mostly those who are more caught up in Living, rather than making money), would say that they are happy; even if they wouldn't say that their job was necessarily 'a good one'.

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17 May 2007 - Bill's Spirit

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Bill's Spirit is an Artist, Writer, Poet, Philosopher currently wordsmithing from a humble abode in small town Ohio.

The works of the man behind Bill's Spirit have been published in small alternative and amateur presses since 1986. Before that, they just filled notebooks, took up space on walls and gathered dust in piles and boxes.

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