Everybody's work matters
EVERYBODY’S WORK MATTERS Mario D’Couto Whenever we talk about work, most people think of it as some sort of necessary evil, something that must be endured in order to put food on the table and pay the bills. Very few of us have the privilege of having that dream job where we wake up every morning with excitement and enthusiasm and because of that we may sometimes feel whether, does our work have any meaning at all? Well, that’s what this blogpost/reflection is about. The ancient Greeks thought that the gods made human beings for work and so work inherently had no blessing, as the Italian philosopher Adriano Tilgher once put it, “To the Greeks, work was a curse and nothing else.” In fact, Aristotle said that unemployment (by which he meant the ability to live without having to work and not as we would understand today of not having a job) was a primary qua...