We must not consider ourselves failures, but those who excel at mediocrity

Hey, do you hate your job? Do you feel like you don't make enough money? Not living in that dream house or driving that dream car yet? Well guess what?....Most of the people around you aren't either. But don't consider yourself a failure yet, you are the epitome of mediocrity!

Mediocrity is so underrated in today's society. Where I work, most people hate their job. Could it be because we work with the public? Could it be that we are understaffed and overworked? I think maybe because we are programmed as Americans to dislike our occupations. Words like 'underpayed', 'underemployed', 'overworked', and the idea of the dreadful Monday are way to prevalent among the workers of America.

The underlying reason, that I deduce, why people really hate their jobs is the the hope and prospect of something better. My question to these sympathizers is: What have you done to deserve better? No really, what have you done? Learned a skill? Improved on your leadership experience? Because a "better" job is not gonna seek you out, nor fall into your lap. Besides, what is so bad about where you are now?  I guarantee that you are exactly where you are supposed to be, and if you weren't you wouldn't be there. Whether you are intended to stay where you are or someday move on to something else, today...right now...you are where you are supposed to be. So my advice to you is to suck it up, get some comfortable shoes, and settle in.  The fact is, workers make the world go round. Everyone can't be in upper management. And as much as people like to believe that their bosses are out of touch or incompetent, they probably couldn't do their job and if they had the job they probably wouldn't like it.

Let's face it, the world needs security guards, bank tellers, janitors, cashiers, and people to make the food. Most importantly the world needs people who do these things well.

So, for as much as my coworkers complain about their jobs and where they should be in life, we continue to get a paycheck every two weeks, we have health benefits, we get paid vacations and sick time. Basically we are in a position where millions of Americans WISH they could be in right now. We look to those who have more, we long to have what they have, and we snarl at the mediocrity that we call life. But as a wise fellow Facebook-er said all too well "Don't worry about what someone else has because you don't know or may not be willing to endure the same obstacles to get where they are in life." (Akasia Jerrett)

And on that note, I'm out. Peace.

Shannon