I love to travel.
I love to travel and do mission work.
Because of those two loves, I work a lot of side jobs to try and raise money to travel without it affecting our usual income.
Next summer, the plan is for the entire family to go to Australia. I usually go by myself on my travels, but while planning this, my wife showed an interest in going and that means our children will go with us.
One of the side jobs I have taken up is working at Amazon in Jeffersonville and it's been a long time since I have worked in a factory.
For the last 20 years, I have taught and coached and I realize how blessed I am to do something that I enjoy, I really do.
But it has been reinforced by walking the aisles of Amazon.
So many of the people there seem to have the "life" sucked out of them by doing what seems like meaningless work.
I look at aisle after aisle of "stuff" that Americans are buying to be shipped to them and wonder what does working here bring to their life?
Money to pay bills?
Extra money to travel?
Or to just exist?
I don't know, each person is different, but I can tell by the conversations I have had and the reactions to people when I say "hello" is that they are no overly happy to be working there.
It would be nice if there were more things that could encourage workers there, but they just do not seem to care about that sort of thing.
So people will work there and quit because human worth is more important than filling some quota.
It's unfortunate, too because Amazon could be so much more.
Their CEO, Jeff Bezos, is worth $150 billion. He has to spend $28 million per day to NOT make money on his already historical sum.
What I would do with that much money would effect so many people.
But who am I to judge?
Maybe he is doing the same things I would do, he just doesn't make it known.
But I can tell you, as a sociologist/psychologist it would help so much the morale of his workers if he did something outrageous because we are not meant to work/live like that.
