…is a lot of work. I’m trying to do a better job this semester of focusing more on my planning and reflection. I’ve started a website, SeattleScience.com, to post my lesson plans and reflections on, as well as to facilitate discussion. I’ve installed pnPHPBB2 for people to post messages in. Creating this site kept me busy last semester, and now I’m trying to focus more on my actual work.
Oh, and I’m also trying to have a balanced life. That feels impossible now, and I feel like it’s my work with the church that is getting the short shrift. If anyone wants to pay me a full-time salary to blog and plant a church, be my guest. On second thought, no, I like my job, and I like working with kids. But it is keeping me insanely busy, especially all the workshops and professional development and meetings. I’m probably working 65 hours a week on school-related stuff.
I had a class in college, Vocational Ministry with prof. Ross Cochran, that required a paper on my “Theology of Work.” Boy, would that be different now. What is your theology of work? I’d start by posting mine, but it’s late, and I want to hear what other people say first.
Grace and peace. Congratulations, Patriots. Hope hosting the Bowl was fun, H-town (my family lives in Houston). OK. Enough. Going to bed.
I actually started a new job today. I had mixed feelings going in to it, but after coming out… I’m a little more mixed than before. I like work. I enjoy hard honest work. Maybe I should use the word labor. I like labor. This new position is a job. I dislike jobs. (Although it’s more for the family and provision.) I’ve thought about work quite a bit lately.
I just left a position that I enjoyed immensely, to arrive at a new position that I’m not sure if I’ll ever feel “at home”. Does anyone else work in a sea of cubes? Any thoughts? Suggestions? Encouragement?
God likes work. Until the Fall work was going on just fine. After the Fall work continued, but became more laborious. That’s an important distinction. I’m sure ole Ross talked about that in class. And I’m sure that led to rest. It seems like the idea of “The Sabbath” is really just the unclaimed ideal. It is also a part of work. The cycle.
Why is some work, like my past job, so much better for my mind? (even when it was physically, interpersonally, and time demanding at times) Why do I feel as though this new job is going to be so draining? (i’m sitting in a cube typing on a keyboard, helping others with important matters; i love helping others… thank how God made me) any ideas?
Welcome to my world. Cubes are far as the eye can see.
I’m not sure that I have any words of wisdom, especially since I have the same ambivalence towards my work. I like creating applications, designing new things, being productive. But at times it feels like I (and all of the other cubicles around me) are nothing but gears in this massive corporate machine designed only to make rich people richer. That?s hard for me. It sounds like your job might be a little more people focused? that?s good. Hold onto that and remember who you?re really working for. That?s my advice.