{"id":12643,"date":"2021-09-06T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=12643"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:30:07","slug":"when-labour-day-meets-the-jewish-new-year-a-brief-reflection-on-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/09\/06\/when-labour-day-meets-the-jewish-new-year-a-brief-reflection-on-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"When Labour Day meets (the Jewish) New Year: A brief reflection on labour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today\nis Labour Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also the last long weekend of the summer preceding our beautiful fall season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later today, a New Year begins for some of us. \u00a0As they say, \u201cShana Tova\u201d (or Happy New Year)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Labour Day and an end\/start of a chapter in life provide an opportunity for reflection on the meaning of labour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labour\nmeans work. Often, it refers to hard physical work (but not only).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nmany countries of the world, including France and Lebanon, there is no Labour Day\n(or long weekend). What is celebrated instead is the International Workers\u2019 Day<\/em>\nor May 1st<\/sup> Day. The latter is a celebration of the labourers (not\nthe labour per se)\/working classes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless,\nthis brief reflection is relevant to both celebrations as well as to the start\nof a new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some\nof us are lucky, even blessed, to love our jobs. Not everyone wakes up excited to\ngo to work on every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others\nwork to earn a living without satisfaction in the work or\u2026 workplace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others\nmay be devoted workers while being underpaid or taken advantage of in one or another\nway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet\nothers keep working hard in their search for a job after being laid out or upon\nmigrating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nare also those rare ones who can afford not to work in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And,\nof course, there are those who despite being passionate and diligent about work,\nthey have been prevented from doing it or from even having physical access to\nit; ironically sometimes by their own employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, regardless of our labour types or conditions, Happy Labour Day to you! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude this post in music and maybe to also practice your French, how about two famous, work-related songs, one by the Mr. Zachary Richard and the other by the Colocs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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