Misjudged Jobs!

URL: http://moodle.morningside.edu/file.php/2859/Readings/Honors_Readings_March_1.pdf

1st reaction: Okay, so this weeks reading is over various jobs that people acquire in life. To be more accurate the reading is over misjudged jobs, for example, a job as a waitress at the local cafe or restaurant which we usually believe is for the unintelligent people who couldn’t make it in school. Often we think certain jobs pays more or less, such as farming we would think it would be a high paying job considering all those acres of farmland owned by one family. However, it isn’t necessarily true because not all farmers who own lots of land is wealthy, some of them struggle to get decent pay from the food they produce.

According to Pierce Walker, the writer of “Working the Land”, many believe that farmers are loaded which they are not, to them it’s like “gambling” you never know when the weather is going to wipe out your crops or you’re going to have a bad season. Farming isn’t a walk in the park as most people think when they see farmers in tractors tending to their crops, it’s actually grueling work. For a normal man working at an office of some corporation, he has certain hours assigned to work in one day and just maybe a couple of days where he may work over time. But to a farmer, everyday is over time for him, he can’t leave his crops to do something fun such as going out of the country or state for a vacation in Hawaii or something. No, he has to stay with his “babies” and make sure they have enough water/moisture to survive or that they don’t get too much.

Other jobs face similar judgment and restrictions (from recreational activities) such as being a waitress. People tend to look down on waiting jobs because they associate dropouts with restaurant servers, which in reality not all servers are dropouts. Moreover, people usually think those jobs are demeaning. As a waitress, you put up with customer complaints all the time, and face resentment from fellow co-workers because you have more requests for service than they do. It’s a difficult job serving customers, you have to like the job and you have to know how to talk to your customers to make them feel comfortable. For example, if a man in a suit comes in for some coffee you don’t just say, “what would you like” you have to use a hook or attention-getter (as if you were writing some essay) and make them (customers) interested. That way they will enjoy coming to the restaurant more often, you have to use a little bit of psychology to understand what to say to a customer to get them to like you. Going back to the man in the suit, you wouldn’t be talking to him about nail salons or something, you want to be political and start talking about the upcoming elections or something. Now this is where it gets a little hypocritical, I’ve said that people have judged jobs right? Well, people who have those jobs also judge their customers, such as the waitress I’ve been talking for one heck of a long paragraph about. Waiters and waitresses have to be prejudice, they have to judge on the customers appearance to get an idea of how to interact with the customer appropriately. Just in case if I haven’t mentioned this before, or if it isn’t obvious by now… Remember when I said that most people think that servers are unintelligent people? Well, it has just been proved wrong because if those servers can entertain you and have you back requesting for their services then you have just fallen into their trap. You have been ensnared in their meticulously made, complex trap and now you can’t escape because they have played their cards right and won your heart. But, it doesn’t matter does it? Because as long as your happy they are happy (not just because the greens/tips are flowing into their pockets) for they enjoy serving you.