This question prodded deep into the inner man for centuries.
The question that's currently prodding and haunting young people moving into adulthood is not "what's in a name?"
but rather...
"what's in a job?"
I (Mark) presented the topic of "Identity for young adults in the workforce" at the Niverville YFC Annual Banquet this year. This topic referred to our ongoing relationships with young people who graduate, turn 18, and face the effects of detachment from institutional routine in school - an ever-growing part to our ministry at the Drop-In.
Today, I believe we are at an awkward crossroad of unprecedented widespread job opportunity met with the lowest fundamental need for work in history! With relative ease, one could be a massage therapist in Thailand, or a Social Network advertiser at home, but even easier would be just to stay home with no job and play video games in your parents basement. Or take one class at University on your parents dime and live and home and drive around their expensive cars while constantly socializing. Still no job.
But a job is strongly attached to who we are, what we think of ourselves, and what our life purpose is. These are the fundamental elements us YFC leaders reinforce in our relationships, and the stronger they are, the further our young people can go in life. So the "agenda" here is not to find the perfect job for each young adult, but rather to engage in the deeper, personal, and spiritual matters of our young adults. The belief here is that when these elements are nurtured, one can find the character necessary to be good at mundane jobs and find greater purpose in them, as well as pursue dream jobs when the time is right with diligence and patience.
We also understand that when ANYTHING is done WITH and FOR God,
it can bring the most meaning to the simplest of tasks.
Here is a clip portraying what our young adult program is going through....
