The CVI Guy

Why do you work?

• Because I have to. Because that’s what people do.
• Because I have bills to pay. Because my kids need shoes.
• Because I don’t want to be homeless.
• Because I’m trying to get rich, and live like those famous people do.
• Because it’s better to have a job than to live on welfare.
• Because I got married and my spouse gets nervous if I don’t bring home a pay check.

So, why do we humans work?

In this larger question (not the more focused query, Why do you work?), but to this broader more open question, Why do humans work? We answer… Maybe we do so because we are creatures like the rest of earth’s creatures. We like the animals and insects, the mollusks and fish, must work to gather sustenance and to survive.

At the survival level perhaps we work from instinct.

The spider (neither insect nor mammal, but an arachnid) works in solitude spinning a web. And before his first meal is caught and hung out to dry, a deer comes along, or a dog in the neighborhood, and crashes through the web and destroys several days’ work.

The spider, simply begins to rebuild what was lost. Why? Because his instinct tells him to, so he begins to spin again. The spider is also free of one other personal human propensity. He doesn’t consider whether there is more purpose to his life than just to build a web, catch food, procreate and die. So the spider, we assume, is content and is not like 70% of us humans, currently looking for a new job.

But then there are the insects, say, the bees. The drones receive their work assignment from their genes and from their birth location in the hive. Some gather food. Some build combs for honey. Some feed the Queen. Some move the larvae around to insure a new generation of drones.

The bees work all day and for many days and do their assigned part without complaint and without stopping until they die. At which time their bodies are dragged out of the hive and pushed aside by other drones that haven’t died yet. They are replaced by a new set of drones that do exactly as they are designed to do.

So maybe we’re more like the bees than the spider, since some of us seem to be designed to do different kinds of work. Hopefully we can do a little better than the bee drones and do more with our lives than just work and die.

Why Work? There are two answers to this. The first, and apparently the answer most of us have to this question; “Why work?” …is that humans are simply another creature, here on this planet. And, as creatures we have to find a way to feed ourselves, keep ourselves warm, and get along in our community for safety sake, and in order to reproduce. That’s why we work; because we, like all the other creatures, have to work. This is one of the requirements for existence here on earth.

The second answer, and the one we at Taylor Protocols adhere to, is that all of us are spiritual beings, created with a unique Core Values Nature and with a specific purpose for our lives. When you are aligned with this purpose, everything else seems to be at peace.

So let’s tighten the question even further, bring it in a little, perhaps a lot; Why do I work? Or better, why do I do the work that I do?

The basic drive as discussed previously is to support ourselves and our community at the creature, survival level. Some of us are living essentially at that level. We are barely able to provide food and clothing for our families. At this level, any job, of course, is one that we should do, at least at this time; and, until I can improve my skills and sell myself to a higher bidder, I want to do this job well.

If you are now in a survival job don’t quit. It is essential to keep your life together. Don’t quit. But you can see, even in this case, if you are not feeling good about yourself as you do the work, then someone else who does feel purposeful while doing the same job will likely survive the next round of layoffs.

We want you to begin looking for the ‘right’ job for you today.

We hate the idea of people working in jobs they don’t enjoy. We hate to think about you doing work that doesn’t give you a sense of meaning, doing tasks you are bored with, or even that you hate, just to bring home a paycheck. This is living life at the creature level. There is much more to being a human than this.

We work because we each have a unique contribution to make to our community. By making this contribution, and only by making this contribution do we justify our lives. There are millions of workers in the U.S. that feel a daily nagging in their guts, an hourly agitation that they should be doing something more, that there has to be more to life. The answer to this nagging agitation is to find the right job for you. We all want and deserve to spend our life doing work that is a natural expression of our most dominant core values. We have to be undefeatable in our quest to find this place of highest and best contribution.