Work and Honesty

To work, or not to work, that is the question.  Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the guilt of a feeling half honest in the work place, or feel free from this burden and be jobless.  That is my question.  Why is it that marketing and businesses can be so dishonest?

Now I will say that some companies really do want to help a customer out.  They have their extremely wonderful customer service, and they will bend over backwards- but have you noticed generally how people do little things to get money?  I had one employer after setting the price for something, he would up the price without the customer knowing. I would call him on it, and of course he would adjust it back down, but is that honest?  I can't say it is.

When I go to the grocery store and see a sign that says *Special* 10 yogurts for 5 dollars when the actual price last week was 45 cents a piece.  Is that honest?  Yet, somehow it is okay.  The customer thinks they are saving, when usually they just adjust the original price, and put it on for a *special*.

I have worked for places who do things like that, and I ask myself, what honest work remains?  I think I understand why it is so hard to get a job as a writer, actor, painter, etc- because you are paid for the work you do.  There don't seem to be any special packages, or day only specials that actually last 1 year- they get paid for the work they do.  Sometimes they can set their own rate, and the people can except or decline it.

Well rather than complain about how I believe things should be changed, I want to talk about honesty, and how it is working in me.

I can't say that I am a completely honest person.  I lie to myself all of the time when I say I can't do something.  I don't know one person in this world who hasn't told a white lie sometime in their life, but I can say one thing.  I have a huge desire to be honest all the time and I would say 98% of the time I am honest.

I don't say now that this honesty sprouts from my amazingness, but from my love for God.  He is my Father, and he is everything good and true and pure.  I want to be just like him one day.  I don't live in a perfect world, but with his help, I can become just as good and true and pure, for he has asked me to be like him, and he would not ask me to do anything that I could not do.

I feel so inclined to be honest, and as of late, it is growing in me.  Kind of like a crazy craving for ice cream.  You see it somewhere, and it just builds and builds and builds, until you HAVE to take action.

So to prove to myself that I could be honest in all of my dealings with my fellow men, Today, I gave my two weeks notice at my job.