Wednesday, December 07, 2005

What Ever Happened to the Idea of Calling?

I'm appalled. Americans are not willing to put in a decent day's work to make money? The linked article indicates that the immigrant who works cutting your fish makes $300/ wk in the winter and $700/wk in the summer. Even if the "summer" is only 4 months long that's a yearly wage of $22,000 or $11/hr.

Isn't preparing someone else's food a legitimate calling from God? I hope so or a lot of Mom's are displeasing God. It is appaling that we've completely lost any sense of vocation/calling and won't work at legitimate jobs to provide for our families. Would I want to do it? Probably not unless it was the only work available and then I'd do it in a heart beat. Why must immigrants do this work when there are likely tons of unemployed folks in Mass living off the system? The answer is that it's easier - though less fulfilling, think French riots - to live off the system.

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