Today, my Mom said to me… you know your Dad didn’t make a very good engineer.  Right out of the clear blue.  I asked her what she meant.  (Because Dad really was a very successful design engineer for a lot of years.)

And she said in all earnestness, “He was a humanitarian.”

She was right about that.

Which led me to think about how we all are employed.
Let every man be occupied in the highest employment of which he is capable and die conscious that he has done his best.
–Sidney Smith



Doing something that we feel good about never loses its importance to our lives.  Especially when it comes from the heart.

And I don’t suspect that it needs to be a prestigious occupation for our work to be important. In fact, who are we… or anyone else…. to decide what kind of job is truly important?

The most menial of tasks… or the littlest actions…. may have a profound impact on a particular man or woman or child today.

  Some people say that the highest order of employment is the offering of love and acceptance to the people on our paths each day.  Today, in fact.

For us to define employment solely in terms of career is a bit shortsighted. Our society pushes us in this direction.

Yet.  Every minute we’re awake we’re busy with something. And…. by definition…. that means we’re employed.

 When we give a broader definition of employment a chance…. that in turn…..  gives every one of us a chance to put in a productive day. Simply.  Knowing that our presence, our words, our willingness to listen to someone else may have made life better for them.  That’s a good job, by any standard.

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”  –  Henry J. Kaiser

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”  – Pericles