Hrm 531 Week 2 Individual Assignment
Question #1
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This past years old I started to compare my life with the life’s to the life of my friends and started to wonder why were they having more success than what I was having. Why were they earning more? Why do they have a better job? Why, why, why, all this questions coming to me. All of them comparing my life with theirs. They were buying luxury cars, traveling, shopping, living on Austin downtown high rises. And me? Well I was living a normal life with a job that I don’t like, driving a car that I don’t like ( cant complain either), on a house that is not bad at all, but its not one of those expensive apartments with an amazing view of the Colorado River. After a lot of thinking there were two things I realized that made …show more content…
Many older people continue working in various ways well past when most others retire. And if you can think of an example of someone who can't, then you have meet 1 but I assure you that there are millions out there that can. Personally I really admire them. I have seen people on their 70 still working, doing their groceries, driving, cooking, going to the gym, running errands, taking care of their house, in general living a great active life like any other person does. Here in Austin we do have tons of examples of this. For us to be witnesses all we have to do is to visit our farmers markets, parks and local events to see old this older people full of life and energy. I am a true believer in the reason for younger people to have this misconception of our elders is due to the social disconnection that we have today. In today’s world not many people take time to be with our elderly. Maybe if we spend more time with them we will notice that they are not helpless just because of their age. They just learned to think differently than we do and to do their thing differently than how we do
Answer:
This past years old I started to compare my life with the life’s to the life of my friends and started to wonder why were they having more success than what I was having. Why were they earning more? Why do they have a better job? Why, why, why, all this questions coming to me. All of them comparing my life with theirs. They were buying luxury cars, traveling, shopping, living on Austin downtown high rises. And me? Well I was living a normal life with a job that I don’t like, driving a car that I don’t like ( cant complain either), on a house that is not bad at all, but its not one of those expensive apartments with an amazing view of the Colorado River. After a lot of thinking there were two things I realized that made …show more content…
Many older people continue working in various ways well past when most others retire. And if you can think of an example of someone who can't, then you have meet 1 but I assure you that there are millions out there that can. Personally I really admire them. I have seen people on their 70 still working, doing their groceries, driving, cooking, going to the gym, running errands, taking care of their house, in general living a great active life like any other person does. Here in Austin we do have tons of examples of this. For us to be witnesses all we have to do is to visit our farmers markets, parks and local events to see old this older people full of life and energy. I am a true believer in the reason for younger people to have this misconception of our elders is due to the social disconnection that we have today. In today’s world not many people take time to be with our elderly. Maybe if we spend more time with them we will notice that they are not helpless just because of their age. They just learned to think differently than we do and to do their thing differently than how we do