Chapter 67 Where will my name be signed?

Most people are empty because he can hardly name what is his personal achievement in his day-to-day work. In gathering data for his book "Work," Tucker asked 135 people, from elevator operators to company presidents, the following question: Do you like your job?As a result, the vast majority of people answered: I don't like it. A steelworker in Chicago gave a vivid explanation for this answer as follows: I like to look at majestic buildings, such as the Empire State Building, and I hope to see a foot-wide space on both sides of the wall, from which From the ground floor to the top floor, the names of every plasterer, every electrician, and everyone involved are engraved.That way, when someone walks through the building, he can tell his son, "Look, my name is inscribed on the wall on the forty-fifth floor, where I put up the steel beams."Picasso can sign his paintings, but where should my name be signed?A writer can sign his book, and everyone should have something to sign.

In modern industrialized society, there are many people like this steelworker who can't name his personal accomplishments in his day-to-day work. Today, only a very few and lucky people do what belongs to him and no one else. Most people do what hundreds of others do. If he suddenly disappears tonight, he will be gone tomorrow morning Someone can pick up his tools and continue his work; the company's products or services will not be different from yesterday because of his disappearance. This is the true appearance of most people's work and life in the modern industrial and commercial society.They don't get happiness in the work of earning bread. It's not that the work is heavy or they are scolded by their superiors, but that they can't bear their own work. sense of accomplishment.

Everyone should have something to sign.What most people need is a life and a job that allows them to put their pen to paper.