The way that I see work is not the same in every instance, for example homework. i know that homework is important because it will determine a grade that i am striving for. a grade that i need to put forth effort because i am paying a very high amount of tuition and therefore i need to make my money worth, i also look at homework as a form of personality. i want my teachers to see that i have motivation and that i am hard worker. obviously i am not talking about labor work or anything like that i am just talking about school work and homework. i don't want the teacher to think that i am lazy i also don't want to let myself down by not doing good school work or homework, not to mention my parents. I've always been a good student growing up but now that i am in a university in a different environment things get a little rough because not only do i have to worry about school work or homework i also have to worry about work work. now work work is a different situation. i also put in a lot of effort into my job because i would like to be looked at as a potential associate that deserves a promotion. i defiantly do not want to be stuck at minimum wage for the rest of my life. i work at customer service so i have to be presentable and also be respectful not only to my managers and co-workers but also with the people who come into the store because i do not want to be known as the jerk clerk. also work can mean the work you put into a relationship. obviously you want the other person that you care about to know how much you care about them so you are going to put work int the relationship whether it be mother daughter, brother sister, father daughter, or even girlfriend and boyfriend. you want to be known as a nice genuine person who works hard at every single thing that you do in life. well i do at least. part of the reason why i feel this way is because of the way that i was raised, my parents never taught me to give up nor did they ever show me that as an example. i was always pushed to try and try and do my best and that is what i do. although sometimes laziness conquers your life at moments. but all i do is look back at how important work is for me and then it all changes back to trying my best. when i know i am doing bad in school i think about what my parents are going to think about me and i quickly change my pace of work. sometimes at work work i get influenced by the lazy workers there and the ones who only like to be jerks and talk about the customers until i quickly realize that i am not that person who talks about others or who doesn't work hard.   when i hear the word work i instantly think of something dissatisfying something that most people do not like to do. because work seems like a negative word. it almost seems as though work is another word for depression for most people. when they say the word work their attitudes instantly escalate downward. thats what i think when the word work is spoken. just like when the wry elephant is said i think of a trunk when work is said i think of bad. i do believe that people in other countries can think of work as the best thing that they have because in so many places work is not available to people work is a form of survival and a lot of people can be extremely joyful that they have work for them. i think that in the united states we have become lazy and used to the "good life" that we forget what it is like to struggle for what we believe to struggle for what will make us happy. people give up too easily and i am a victim of that as well. if i could just picture myself living in a world where i do not have the luxury of life that i do then maybe my whole view of work would be totally turned at 360 degrees.