Week 11: Measuring the Cost

 This weeks reading really made me ponder about what life priorities should look like. A lot of the videos talked about finding the balance between work life and home life. I said it multiple times in the discussion boards this week, but to me, it really is so important. We all are going after our own version of the American Dream. I think for a while that dream was to be able to have as many freedoms as you could. You could work hard and get the nice house, the nice cars and the best clothes. While those things are great, for me that is not my dream. America has gone into this notion that you have to always put work first. I do not agree with that. 

My goal is life is to be ale to have the freedom of only working as much as need to, and then spending the rest of my time enjoying life, being with family and having the ability to travel. Up until just a couple of weeks ago I worked for a major airline here in the United States as a Passenger Service Agent. I was only a part-time agent, and usually worked around 25 hours a week. At first it seemed like a great job because you get flying benefits and the ability to travel. The longer I worked there though I came to realize that it wasn't the job that would help me achieve my goals. You schedule might tell you that you work from 6am-1pm, but if it is busy because of passengers, or a flight cancels you don't get to leave. No really, you are not allowed to. The first time this happened to me was during the Christmas holiday season. I was supposed to work from 4am-11am. Flights got busy and more people were coming. There were delays because of weather and I think we had a flight cancel. It is also based on seniority. So if someone who has worked there longer than you wants to leave, they will be able to before you do even if they showed up a couple hours after you did that day. Well, that is what happened. I didn't end up leaving until 3pm, and I felt like I was being held hostage. 

That jobs whole viewpoint is that your life needs to be revolved around work. Never mind that you almost missed a doctors appointment that you had been waiting for for 3 months. Work needed you to stay 3 hours longer than what you were scheduled. I want to work so that I can live my life, not the other way around.

When thinking about the scenarios we were given this week it made me think of this. Life and memories are not replaceable. Money and jobs are. For me that is the cost and I am willing to leave a job if I don't feel like it measures up. 

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