Job-Alternative

I knew, somebody is going to ask to find out what people do, when they have nothing on hand ‘needed’ to be done! Now the ‘needs’ are decided by a mind which itself has turned materialistic. That is why, most of us are scared of retirement, or even planning something ahead of the date.

A few centuries ago, the concept of job was not so popular. Going to “office” was unheard of. There was no “office” in the first place.

The pastime aspect never came up with so much clarity about the main purpose of life then! But, today, there is no point in trying to think of all those things. We need to know what we can do in a practical sense. At the same time, a few of us here and there who attempt to do something which is not quite common, and yet happen to retain their cheerfulness or even improve upon it, should not fail to attract some attention, at least to get us or set us to think of it. That was what prompted me to try to sell/tell my views to these questions.

The concept is not entirely strange even today. Most of the ‘office-going’ people in USA have an ‘alternative’ pastime, which takes up a very significant portion of their ‘life-focus’.
Where as in India, there are a significant number of people who quietly compromise for a very low profile, curbing their potential, profile, and threat of getting noticed(And, it works so well too, that, perhaps this could be the most significant ‘unsaid’ reason why youngsters migrate to west where they get their due worth as returns)!
Psn(8th September, 2010)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100904163120AAIRJkY
What else do you do????????
Besides your job?

My answer:
Quite interestingly, in ancient India, a 'job' was considered as an alternative to 'living' itself! Quite strange and utterly illogical to modern mind! But the term used is still in vogue, though most people tend to look at the attributed meaning rather than the meaning which the word itself offers! It was a word in Sanskrit language "Upa-Jeevana-Maargam" (Upa is 'assisting'/deputy/alternative', and Jeevana is 'life/living, maarga is way/means). The very culture, the way of life, recognised the deeper purpose of life, even at the cost of losing a job, or forsaking it, or not having it at all!