Chant About Employability

CHANT ABOUT EMPLOYABILITY

Written Thurs. July 12th, 2018, posted Tues. Sept. 11th, 2018

All Americans need to be chanting the same chant, “We live in a humongously complicated world, but we all need to have a job and some work to do.”  We need to chant this together, and when the rich people chant it, they need to think compassionately about the poor people.

More about employability.  You may think the problem is about laziness, but it’s not.  If you think the problem is about laziness, you do not know enough about your fellow human beings, and you need to go back to the basics of studying what your fellow human beings are like. 

Joining a church works for some people, as a way to study what your fellow human beings are like.  In my case, it allows me to hang around with some mighty good people.  But joining a church does not always work, and what I really recommend (as a way to study what your fellow human beings are like) is volunteering.  Now you may hate the idea of volunteering – deep down in your heart, you may feel the same way as Bessie Smith, who said, “I’ve got what it takes, but it breaks my heart to give it away.”  Volunteer anyway.  If you volunteer, and if you sincerely try to understand things from the other person’s point of view (“Walk a mile in my shoes”), you are going to learn a hellacious amount of information about your fellow human beings, both from the people who need to be helped, and from your fellow volunteers, and that information will help you in your job.  Your fellow volunteers may see things a whole lot differently from you.  Try to understand where they’re coming from, and what motivates them.  I said it will help you in your job – it will help you be a better supervisor, it will make you more honest, it will give you better hunches on when to take a chance on a person, it will make you a better dealmaker.  Having a heart for your fellow human beings will do your heart good.

In conclusion, find a way to get some personal experience, which will help you get rid of the idea that the root of all unemployability is laziness.  That idea is not true.

By the way, the chant is about human beings.  I’m going to spell it out for you: computers are taking over, and we human beings need to have each other’s backs.

Frank Newton