Let me tell you how to do you job.

There is a great amount of information available these days and as such it can give me a false sense of a super power. You see, with all this information that I can access and have read about I am able to tell you how to do every job, any job, your job.

Yes, I know just enough about every job on the planet that I can tell you that you are not doing your job well and that I can do it better. Sure, I don't have the skills you developed over your time in school, but ​I have the seen a few YouTube videos. Okay, so I don't have experience in your field, but I have a good gut feelin' of how this should be done. You tell me I am not experienced? Really experience is underrated, I mean the new Pope has never been Pope before and he seems like he is doing fine. Frankly I think that understanding all the complexities of any job is not relevant, because what is really important is just the tunnel vision that I currently live in. 

Tell me all you want about the importance of being qualified by a panel of your peers and subject to constant supervision and evaluation of your supervisors to ensure you maintain the standards of ​your profession - not important. Tell me all about your sense of purpose you may be trying to achieve or live into a vision of something greater than yourself - that sounds like a bunch of talk and no action. Bless your heart, of course I know you try your best, but really I can tell you that given what I know about all the expectations of you in your job I could do it better. 

No, I am not interested in going through the training you tell me I need. And no, I do not have time to seriously consider the possibility that ​I am not equipped to actually do your job. You are not listening to what I am saying!​

All I know is that you are doing your job wrong,

I would do it better.

So let me tell you how to do your job.

Jason Valendy

Husband, father of two boys, pastor in the United Methodist Church, and guy who is interested in the desert mothers and fathers. The idea of Orthocardia is the pursuit of having a “right heart” over the pursuit of having a “right belief” (orthodoxy) or a “right action” (orthopraxy).

www.jasonvalendy.net
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