John Ortberg Quote
A lot of people are dissatisfied with their jobs. Theologian Drew Carey said, You hate your job? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody. They meet at the bar. A research group affiliated with the University of Chicago recently listed the ten least happy jobs in the world and the ten happiest jobs in the world. What they found was the ten least happy jobs actually were more financially lucrative and offered higher status than the ten happiest jobs. The difference? People in the happiest jobs had a higher sense of meaning. Less money, less status, but a higher sense of meaning. The main thing you bring home from your work is not a paycheck. The main thing you bring home from work is your soul. Work is a soul function. We’re made to create value. The writer of Ecclesiastes says, There is nothing better for a person than that he should make his soul enjoy good in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God.
A lot of people are dissatisfied with their jobs. Theologian Drew Carey said, You hate your job? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody. They meet at the bar. A research group affiliated with the University of Chicago recently listed the ten least happy jobs in the world and the ten happiest jobs in the world. What they found was the ten least happy jobs actually were more financially lucrative and offered higher status than the ten happiest jobs. The difference? People in the happiest jobs had a higher sense of meaning. Less money, less status, but a higher sense of meaning. The main thing you bring home from your work is not a paycheck. The main thing you bring home from work is your soul. Work is a soul function. We’re made to create value. The writer of Ecclesiastes says, There is nothing better for a person than that he should make his soul enjoy good in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God.
Related Quotes
About John Ortberg
Ortberg resigned from his position as pastor of Menlo Church in Summer 2020 after it was revealed that he had allowed one of his children, John Ortberg III, to continue volunteering in working with minors at the church after John III had disclosed having experienced unwanted thoughts of attraction to minors. The allegations had arisen in late 2019, initially without identifying Ortberg's son as the volunteer in question.