Now begins my season of work!

For everything there is a season.

There is a season to plant, there is a season to harvest. There is a season to rest and there is a season of work.

I had my season of rest while I was unemployed. Now I have two jobs and it is a season of work.

I’m not complaining, but my next day off is Thanksgiving! Two months straight. I’ve done worse. I’ll be okay.

Be careful of what you wish for. Now I’m in a season of work.

I finally found a “real” job that pays really well and wants me to work for it. I already agreed to help a friend on the weekends until the end of the year. I keep my word. So work is what I’m doing.

I work Monday through Friday at the real job and then on weekends to help my friend. The money is good, I just have to work for it.

I don’t mind the work. In fact I welcome the work. To be productive again.

What does the word “work” mean to you?

My kid thinks it’s a four-letter word and shouldn’t be used in polite company. He hates it when I talk about work.

Some people see work as that thing people were cursed by God in the Garden of Eden so long ago.

My wife is nutural about the word.

Me, I welcome the word. I welcome a chance to do something productive for pay. I enjoy it.

Do you look forward to work, or look to it as a “have to.”

Changing your mindset is easy. Say I got to work instead of I have to work. And find a job that you say I get to go to.

Right now I get to go to a real job, I sell car wash equipment for AutoBrite in San Antonio and am loving it! I also sell firearms on the side for Sparks Firearms on the weekends at shows. Both are great jobs and I love selling stuff to people.

I get to learn what people want and need and help them get it. I guess I have a personality for sales and have found my true profession late in life. I just didn’t want to be a widget salesman like so many I’ve met. I found products that I have a passion for and love learning about and talking about.

I get to work.

How about you? Do you get to work, or do you have to work?

Ben Branam

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