Our attitude towards a job.

There is a lady I know who works at what some of us, if not most, would consider to be one of the dirtiest place in the country. She has a job that has to do with sewage, clearing the filth from the smelly water and then filtering it before it goes back into our natural water-ways.

She is well-qualified for it and gets a salary most of us would envy. The only distasteful part of her occupation is supervising the work of other members of the staff to ensure that things such as underwear and everything else are fished out and removed before the water goes through some form of filtration.

Since I would not like to visit her place of work after hearing her description of the process of clearing the debris and other unmentionable things people throw into their sewage system, the above was the picture I received.

It is not everyone who can stomach the sight of such detestable objects those people find in their work. One of her friends, a man, could not bear such a sight and the next day found him out of the job. Of course, we who are not dependent upon such a post could easily say, "Ugh! I would run too!"

However, it is still a post with a good salary. And if those people there can do it, why not us? What or where is the difference?

As we talked, we did come to such a question. We have no doubt that it is the attitude of the people. If the workers there think of it as just another job with not much competition from most people, then there ought to be no problem. Furthermore, it is a well-paid job. And after all, there are other types of work just as undesirable. We have factories with all kinds of fumes and gases. The smell is just as intolerable. I once taught in a school where the smell of processing rubber attacked us each morning. although we believed it to be unhealthy, we tolerated it for some years before it moved elsewhere.

Attitude is an important factor in many parts of our lives. It plays an important role in deciding our future. People have landed in prison because of their attitude towards others and their ways. Well, the right attitude for whatever we do is the most important determinant of our success.