In the USA 64.1 percent of the people have jobs; most of them work nine hours a day (Employment Situation Summary). Work is the biggest part of your life, whether it's school for kid or working everyday for grown-ups. The short story "The Hundredth Dove" by Jane Yolen demonstrates how your job can haunt you for the rest of your life.
Work is a large part of life. If you love your work but it doesn't support your life, you may be stuck in a lousy house. On the complete opposite side, if you hate your work but you are being paid thousands, you may end up having no life other than work. Hugh, main character, was a fowler for the king’s high table; he was as efficient as the Ford Fiesta being able to kill one bird with one shot until one day when the king asked him to get 100 doves. He captured the first 99 doves without a problem until the last dove; this dove was the only white dove and had slipped through his before he could capture the bird. When he caught this dove, the bird started to talk to him saying let me go. Instead of letting the bird go, he executed the animal; he was never able to kill a dove again. This is like when a pro athlete almost get hurt and is not able to play at the same level for the rest of the game.
Work is a large part of your life, but it shouldn’t be your whole life. Some people work so much that they get addicted to work and they cannot stop working; these people are called workaholics. In this story work was such a large part of his life that when the bird was talking to him, he couldn’t hunt again. This didn’t just change his work but then he started to leave food out for the birds. My grandpa had the same problem when he retired from being CEO of his company; he would spend all of his time making rivers and trails at his hunting property.
You spend most of your life work if you are a CEO or a Program manager. But it really doesn’t matter what you do in your job but more what you do with you time. You really want to be known for what you do in your free time verses what you do when you’re working.
