What Work is (Elizabeth Wingerter)

**Work is the requirement of the mind or body to challenge itself with an outcome of either positive or negative emotions.**


One of my close friends gave me a different feeling of “work” when I asked her what the word work meant to her. She described it as the easy task in everyday life because she believed that “the actual work is trying to figure out what kind of work [I] would like to do” (boullosa). She felt that the “work” part of it was trying to find yourself and what you feel your purpose of work should be.

"Your definition of
work
will constantly change
depending on the person
you are." (boullosa)

Welcome to the Bloghouse (Mysti)

Welcome all y'all (yes, that't the formal plural of "y'all" coming all the way to you from Texas)! I hope we find a way to enjoy both posting and commenting on each other's posts this semester. But mostly, I hope we find publishing our thoughts, ideas, research and poems on this venue a useful thing to do. The idea, after all, is to form a research community where we can pool our collective work and borrow from one another (as long as we give credit to the source) if it aids us in completing our mulit-genre texts. Hey--what if it's simply the phrase "mulit-genre text" that is throwing many of us off the trail of what it is we really need to achieve this semester--the writing of a book that explores the work of ______________ (however you choose to fill in the blank)? Maybe we should just call it an aardwolfe? Anyone seen one lately?

But let's take things a baby-step at a time: the first step being to post your "working definition" of the word work--and if you want to--but only if you find it very useful or interesting--include the information you gleaned by talking to three others (making sure to credit them, of course). Has anyone got a definition of work that you are willing to share with the rest of us?