What Dignity Looks Like In A Small Job

Dignity in a small job looks like this: you arrive, you do the task completely, you do not steal, and you do not make the customer or the junior pay for your boredom.

The country runs on small jobs. Someone has to pack, wipe, watch, carry, drive. Mocking that work is a luxury the mocker still uses every day.

What is dignity not?

It is not smiling at abuse. It is not staying forever if a door opens. It is not pretending the pay is fair when it is not. Dignity can look for better. It just does not rot while it looks.

How do you hold your head on a site or a stall?

Uniform as neat as you can. Language that does not need a curse to feel strong. A lunch you do not have to hide. Readers of thefilipinomen.com know this man. He is the point of the journal.

What about people who talk down to you?

Do the job. Do not perform a fight you will lose and then replay for a year. Take their money if it is the work. Take your name home clean.

More of this kind of everyday manhood is at thefilipinomen.com — that is the home of The Filipino Men.

Frequently asked questions

Is ambition the opposite of dignity?
No. Ambition without dignity becomes a man who steps on the next small job. Keep both.

What if the job is humiliating?
Humiliating bosses are a reason to exit. Honest tasks are not humiliation. Learn the difference so you do not hate bread.