That’s not exactly the case these days.
The first page (at the time of writing,
obviously) of the “marketing and media
jobs” section of Bizcommunity.com, for
example, refers to an entire industry
that didn’t even exist until relatively recently, and features such seriously
strange job titles as: ‘gifting administrator’, ‘rental sales agent’, ‘mid level developer: PHP/HTML5’ and my personal
favourite, “senior CaseWare working
papers consultant’.
Putting aside this weird new breed of
political correctness where everybody
and their great aunt have to be a manager or director of something, picking a career path is simply a perplexing and
frustrating task. A simply absurd number of niche options and variables come
into play when selecting a career, including but not limited to: monetary compensation, conduciveness to family life,
fulfilment, enjoyment, working environment and, let’s not forget, trying to figure out which of these actually matter.
It’s enough to give anyone a life-long
migraine – and that’s not even taking
into account how often and how easily
you can get your head kicked in by recessions, depressions and the capricious whims of an economic system
that has this very nasty habit of spinning completely out of control whenever it darn well feels like it. The working
world is a weird old place and it’s only
getting weirder.
WHO IS MAKING MY MONEY
FOR ME, ANYWAY?
Considering just how contemporary
these problems seem to be, you would
think that something as ancient as Judaism couldn’t possibly hope to capture
the complexities and intricacies of
modern working life. You would, however, be wrong. In many ways, in fact,
the working world has only just now
caught up with Judaism’s conflicting,
perplexing, nuanced and often difficult
to