To Work Better, Work Less

What argment of the work do these two images have in common?

Well the imaage on page 172 in SWW shows what looks to be a dragon made of numbers and a man holding a pen trying to fight off the dragon. The title of the image is Busines is a series of battles. We make chariots. The images to me symbolizes what business is like everyday. Dealing with overwhemling amounts of work and numbers can outgrow you and consume you by working too much. This compares to the image on page 278 in SWW the We Can Do It! poster because it is telling women that they can be equal to men and work during world war II. Women were encourgaed by the seriousness in the womens face and how strong she looks by flexing her arm. The thing that they have in common is self pormotion. They uses images to get the viewers (us) to fall into their trap.

How do these ideas contrast with those presented in the article? 

The ideas from the article state that if you work less you work better. And that is true. In the summer i worked almsot everyday and got only one to two days off, it was overwhelming and stressful but i did it because i needed to stay busy and make some money. After summer i only worked the weekends and i saw myself work much better and harder becasue during the week i had time to myself to relax and get siked for working friday, saturday and sunday. Having that break improves someone so deeply because they can focus on their own personal lives as well. The images from the book SWW differ from this artcle becasuse they use figurative language to sell products or encourage to work becasue its better for you. Over working is a neative effect on people becasue they tend to have less time to cae about their own heatlh. 

Which of these concepts of work do you most agree with?

Personally I agree with the concept of working less to work better because i could relate to it in every way, i used to work almost 40 to 50 hours and it wasnt good. i got lazy and bought mostly fast food and i didnt work out at all, i could tell that it wasnt healthy for me tobe working so much. The time i have for myself befrore the weekend is special to me becasue when i get to work im all pumped and ready to go.

Some Lessons from the Assembly Line

        I agree with the essay Some Lessons from the Assembly line because I think that when we are getting an education, it is because we want to have a better style of life. Getting a degree sometimes seems hard because there are some other circumstances that come along with it. For example, if people are working after school or whenever they are free, it can sometimes distract them from that process of getting a degree. We are getting an education because we want to be better persons and probably because of the job that we have now is something that we don’t want to do for the rest of our lives. Andrew Braaksma had this summer job that he said he didn’t like, but this was motivating him to study harder in school so he could get a better job later. We all go through these circumstances sometimes in our lives. We are doing something that we don’t want, but this job is bringing us a lesson: that to go wherever we want to go, we have to work hard and appreciate what we now have.

         I disagree with Your Lifestyle has Already Been Designed because this essay just talks about getting money out of something. People are working because they are getting paid, but when that happens people tend to lose the motivation or enjoyment of working at something that they have decided to do for the rest of their lives.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

I agree with  David Cain, our lifestyle has been designed for us. He writes about how different his life was when he was traveling the world with no source of income yet he was happier and he was able to go on without spending so much, compared to now that hes back to his 9-5 job with no free time but able to spend freely. By working 9-5 and getting a paycheck every 2 weeks he was careless with money because he knew it would be replenished which is what a lot of us do when we have a secure form of income we tend to spend without a care but when we know moneys tight it hurts to even spend 5 bucks on coffee. The argument about corporations and how they take a part in our spending's is true we tend to not need stuff but think that we do therefore we buy into what they are selling.The less free time we have the more we buy simply for convenience he says it keeps us unambitious outside of work which is true.

Why Education is so Important

         We are very lucky to be able to have the chance of getting a higher education. Many people don't even have the chance to get a education which puts them straight in the work force. I agree with Andrew Braaksma when he says " Factory life has shown me what my future might have been like like I had never gone to college" I can relate to it because I'm thankful that I'm in college and not still doing the hard manual labor at my old job. Working from when school ends to 10 P.M and on weekends from 7 A.M to 10 P.M made me thankful that I am in college trying to get a degree so I don't have to do back breaking labor for the rest of my life. One day we will be out in the real world on our own, with the degree that we are stressing over will give us the ticket to not be the low man on the totem pole.
        In "Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed" he pretty much talked about just talk about blowing money. These two articles are very different in the other article Andrew talked about how he worked hard for his money and in this one he said he had long days but never any hard labor. I believe that if people work hard for money they tend not to spend it as easy. Therefore, this is why I disagree with this article.

Lessons from the Assembly LIne

I believe that Andrew Braaksma "real world" is the true form. Not everyone can get the same type of education. In a third world or even a second world country an education is rare and those that do receive a education will have a better life. Students are also paying for their college/education so they should take advantage and use their education. Most American's don't even have to worry about not attending a college, just where they want to go for college. We should use the education we are getting to try to get a stable job with good job security. Also all jobs are not secure. With companies always competing with each other will cause some to either go into bankruptcy or just be force to fire some of their workers. Some companies will move to other country to get workers that will work for less money like, like with Braaksma said "...moved to Mexico, where people would work for 60 cents an hour." So companies may just even decide to go to another country to have workers work for even less than they pay you right now. Jobs are hard to obtain and a job is very easy to lose.