Proposal Discussion

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My journey begins aboard Odell’s (2019) and Frayne’s (2015) mind while looking at the aspects that constitute work. This would require a quick discussion about respect, trust, skills and abilities in use, pay and compensation, long term goals, and job security; calling for a brief stop along the highway. We would even need to point out that solitude is an aspect of work apart from being work itself, as Odell (2019) identifies it, especially since it results in engorged ideas, ready to bear fruit. This will give a description for motivation for work. We bring Frayne’s (2015) ideas of the economic and social aspects of work aboard. We argue about the aspects of work against the economic and social views, trying to understand how self-development activities would attract goals, skills and abilities, respect, trust, among other aspects, and whether or not they would still be considered as work on this basis.

The journey picks up again, questioning which of these aspects are considered the most important, why they are considered so, and whether or not there are settings in which these aspects would work and where they would not. Seeing that it is a long discussion, the journey goes on for hours, breaking down the uniqueness of various types of work activities, their nature, and the amount of intention and investment that these activities would require. We would be basically driving towards an understanding of aspects of work that would easily be a good definition for work as it is known. The drive will help provide a clear path for what ought to and what ought not to be included in work activities as a definition. However, the journey would also need to be pointing Odell’s (2019) and Frayne’s (2015) ideas towards satisfaction from the activities. If we might be able to cover enough ground with the little fuel we have, then we might be able to arrive at our destination of the most important aspects to consider for a satisfactory definition of work.

References

Frayne, D. (2015). The refusal of work: The theory and practice of resistance to work. Zed Books Ltd.

Odell, J. (2019). How to do nothing: Resisting the attention economy. Melville House.