When Did Idleness Become A Virtue?

When Did Idleness Become A Virtue?

        The best job there is doing something that you love, something that improves not just your survival, but your family's, other people's and the world's. Doing what you like and making a positive impact.

        The worst job in the world might be sitting in a chair in an empty, windowless room, facing a big clock. No people, no computers, no paper. Just a chair, a clock and nothing to do.

        The popular notion seems to be to do as little as possible, collect the most money that can be gotten in exchange for doing as close to nothing as can be arranged, then retire to enjoy your leisure.

        A NYC Parks Department carpenter told me that he'd hang a door every six months and drive around in a city vehicle the rest of the time. I hope he was exaggerating. It sounded like he was bragging.

        "Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale."
        - L. Ron Hubbard
        The Way to Happiness
        "Be Industrious"

        Case in point:

        My NY drivers license was about to expire but the Department of Motor Vehicles would not renew my license because there was a discrepancy between their records and the Social Security Administration's records, now new Homeland Security rules prevent the DMV from renewing my license and I have to go to the Social Security Administration and resolve this.

I go to the Social Security Administration office in Jamaica, Queens. There's a line, there are five windows open with clerks to deal with the line. One clerk is on the phone, one clerk is catching up some computer entry and not taking persons off the line, one clerk is talking to a co-worker, one clerk has been talking to the same guy since I arrived (the guy isn't talking, the clerk is talking). 

        The fifth clerk is a thin young man, he's quietly singing to himself and handling one person after another with a minimum of conversation. Twice it happened that the person at the window had the wrong paperwork, this clerk directed them to the right form and told them to fill it out and come back to the front of the line. He took care of my issue in about 90 seconds while singing Bob Marley's "Rasta Man Chant" quietly.

        Guess who was the happiest employee at the Social Security Administration office in Jamaica? 

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Tom Jacoby
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