RESPECT THEM FOR THEIR JOBS

By Henshaw Uzama

It is common in every country to see people who do menial jobs being disrespected and insulted because of their jobs. Why do we do this? Because God has given a person the opportunity to be above another person, regardless who, in terms of finances or education or skills, doesn’t serve as a reason why that person should look down on other people. 

Earlier today, I was reading my Biology textbook and in it I saw a portion that said “Unemployement leads to major major cases of crime”, but I thought to myself that apart from unemployement, laziness also leads to crime. When we say “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop”, we don’t know that an idle mind not only means an unemployed mind, but most time refers to a lazy mind. 

Whether an individual likes it or not, he or she has the responsibility of contributing to society, positively or negatively. If a person refuses to work and contribute positively, he automatically gives his mind out to the devil to use because an empty vessel will be filled with roaches, rats and other unwelcomed pests. 

That is why we should respect people who refuse to remain idle and instead go out into the streets to do the menial ‘blue-collar’ jobs that we would never in our lives imagine ourselves doing. 

Most of these people had the chance and good reasons to stay idle, but they chose to find jobs to do. Some of these people are graduates from the best universities in the country, while some were not fortunate enough to go to school. 

Even though these people may not measure up to you financially or materially, they deserve to be respected because that man who cleans the gutters in your street could have also been the armed-robber or hired assassin that would have robbed or killed you for money, yet he chose to clean your gutters for a lot less money, so why should you treat him like he does not matter?
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RESPECT THEM FOR THEIR JOBS