I saw a Meme today that said ‘You get what you work for, not what you wish for’.
As I saw that, I thought ‘No, you don’t’.
I refrained from replying, but felt like I needed to say something about this.
My whole life, the idea that hard work will bring results and that if you work for something you get it has been drummed in to me, from school to uni to work, and more, this is a pretty consistent message.
But here’s the thing. I have worked hard all my life, yet haven’t got what I’ve worked for!
I have worked hard. I have followed the ‘rules’ on how to do things, from grow my business to have a household budget. I have done everything I was told I should do so that I would ‘get what I work for’, yet it hasn’t come.
I have realised that a lot of this has to do with the fact that what I’ve done doesn’t suit my brain, but a lot also has to do with the way society is set up.
For those who work for an employer, for example, the employer sets the wages, they decide what they will pay. And if you are working part time and/or in a lower paying role, no amount of hard work is going to help you get ahead. Not to mention those who are on higher salaries often appear to be working less hard than those working entry level jobs.
Mums and carers work incredibly hard, and for next to no pay, so therefore are often left behind.
I’m tired of being told if I work hard I’ll get what I work for… when that simply doesn’t happen, or it hasn’t happened to date.
It also pushes away the things that I find easy to do, so I think that I need to work hard, even when my past experiences have shown that doesn’t work.
So, you don’t always get what you work for, and if it doesn’t happen, it’s not because you haven’t worked hard enough.
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