Things were different back then. Today if a woman was asked to do the things we did back then, she would revolt, declare that she wasn’t anyone’s slave, wouldn’t be put upon in that fashion. But you have to remember that this was before automatic washers and dishwashers, before blenders and electric knives. If the carpet was going to get cleaned, someone, usually a woman, would have to take a broom to it, or would have to haul it on her shoulders to the yard and beat the dirt out of it. If the wet clothes were going to get dry, someone had to hang them in the yard, take them down from the yard, heat the iron on the fire, press them, and finally fold or hang them. Food was chopped by hand, fires were stoked by hand, water was carried by hand, anything roasted, toasted, broiled, dried, beaten, pressed, packed, or pickled, was done so by hand. Our version of a laborsaving device was called a spouse. If a man had a woman by his side, he didn’t have to clean and cook for himself. If a woman had a man by her side, she didn’t have to go out, earn a living, then come home and wrestle the house to the ground in the evening.
Susan Lynn PetersonThe way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us.
Jeannette WallsTags: work mother common-sense battle-of-the-sexes daughter farming ranch
..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.
Hugh MacLeodTags: inspirational work
This primary question of life organization is immensely important. If making money is the main goal, a person can often forget what his or her true interests are or how he or she wants to deserve recognition from others. It is much more difficult to add on other values to a life that started out with just making money in mind than it is to make some personally interesting endeavor financially possible or even profitable.
Pekka HimanenTags: philosophy work
When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?
Brian JamesIf you’re not afraid of working hard, self-reliance comes easy!
Lorii MyersTags: work self-improvement
Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly.
Lorii MyersIf money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
Jess C. ScottTags: humor money devil society god work religion humour sarcasm satan materialism worship rat-race working sarcastic-quotes commercialism job mm rockstar sarcastic bromance sarcastic-humor core core-of-the-soul core-values yaoi
[Poem: Slates of Grey]
Sullen faces like slates of grey—
What I’d seen on a walk today.
Bodies rushing bodies bolting
Time for life a disregarding.
Money to make and to grow old
What about the hands to hold?
Deadlines, projects, people to meet
What about our own two feet.
Sullen faces like slates of grey...
What I’d see most anyday.
Tags: life money happiness life-experience spiritual work life-lessons rat-race working city job city-life
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
John MuirTags: work spring enthusiasm joyful john-muir muir spring-work
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