Is a life spent working in a customary job a purposeful one?

@KaiserSolze No one...?

@MarkPaul no one.

@KaiserSolze I appreciate your certainty. But, still...

@MarkPaul firstly you have to define purposeful. Then you have to define how to measure purposeful depending on how you're defining purposeful.

A guy with no job could have a "sense of purpose" because he rescues stray cats. But if you define his purpose by his impact on the world then he's increased an animal population that doesn't need increasing. Maybe the cats he saved killed some mice and reduced the occurrence of viles disease. But maybe that viles disease would of killed a serial killer who killed 34 people. So is his life purposeful?

It's subjective even depending on having a clear definition of purpose which as far as I know we do not have a scientific definition of how to determine if a life is purposeful or not.

But i haven't really looked into it so I dunno, maybe someone knows the answer to your question.

@KaiserSolze I feel like you have changed your answer. I now appreciate your honesty.

@MarkPaul I haven't changed my answer. No one knows if a job is purposeful at all because you have to add it all up after you've defined purposeful.

I find sense of purpose with my children. I try to at work but that's like banging my head on a wall.

What do you mean by a customary job?

@KaiserSolze You know... an average everyday kind of job, I guess.

@MarkPaul so like 99% of jobs? Lol

I think some people are purposeful irrespective of work roles and some are not.

@KaiserSolze I guess I am thinking of more spiritual types of purpose.

@MarkPaul not necessarily achieved by a working role.

I sought a spiritual purpose type of role for years. What I realised along the way of that is that pretty much everything is basically spiritual in some way depending.

For example I cleaned houses for a while. You can clean the blind ladies house badly thinking she won't notice and it doesn't matter or you can clean it really good and she says "I love it when you clean because I can feel it's cleaner"

Spirituality is about intent imo "right thought. Right word. Right action" which is much harder than it sounds. Spirituality you can bring to any job role because it's how you do the job as much as what the job is.

A nurse is better than a kitchen fitter? - The kitchen fitter with good intent made the nurses life easier and less stressful and she was more relaxed and her patients benefitted.

Whatever you do, do it with a good heart. Finding something you enjoy is important because it makes it easier to do it with love.