The Need for Jobs: When Employment Isn’t Just About Dreams, But About Survival

Neha Kumari
Jul 14
3 min read

For many, jobs aren't just about passion—they're about survival. Discover the emotional reality of working to support family needs and hidden responsibilities.

It is not every job which is pursued out of passion.

Others are simply removed out of pressure.

When a person is getting a job it is not always to support a career, but also to provide a family unannounced.

Occupations That Are Not Laden with Responsibility Only

The story of silent sacrifice accompanies every young adult who is forced to work long hours.

An education of a brother or a sister. A doctor bill of parent. A family which operates on a single paycheck.

To them (many are parents), jobs are not mere aspirations, but rather the bread winners of the family.

The compulsion to make money at a young age is strong in Indian households and more so in the middle- and lower-income ones.

And as it develops maturity it most usually robs young people of their youth and dreams and peace of mind.

Because when you travel to be somehow able to keep your family alive, it is not a bag you carry, it is a burden.

Not only Breadwinners, but Dream-Carriers

Child workers who have to support their families are not only employees, but emotional crutches.
They deny their vacations in order to enable younger siblings to attend coaching classes.
They take night shifts in order to enable their parents to have sleep.
They are known as the employees in the world.

However, back at home they are breadwinners, security, and champions of hope.

The Importance of Jobs is Personal to so Many

People are all in need of a job, but not all of them because of the same reason.

Others pursue prosperity.

There are others who run after stability.

Or there are those simply struggling to put enough electricity on, pay school fees or even

buy medicines.

They are urgent not to amass wealth. It is the matter of filling in the holes that life left.

The Unseen Force of Young Earners

The society usually goes on praising young achievers, yet never questions them why they needed to grow up this early.

The early success stories are usually followed by a financial tragedy.

At the time when others are contemplating job satisfaction, they are only contemplating about job security.

Since your family may live off of your paycheck then there is no waiting and there is no room to be concerned about finding the right job.

They do not have to be pitied; they have to be respected.

Individuals who make use of family requirements as a profession should not be despised.

And their walk is not an easy one of courage and selflessness, one that most people are not able to understand.

They do not complain-they simply carry on. moving softly and valianly and with beauty.

They might not be posting career victories on the internet, but they are slaying real monsters on a daily basis; they are battling poverty, pressure and pain.

It's High Time to Redefined Success -

Success does not always appear in terms of posh offices or salary of 6 figures.

Success, at times, is the ability to send money back home at month end.

At times it is simply making sure the light is on, the school is still and the family is still eating.

The success of that kind?

It can be applauded. Each and every time.

Final Thoughts: Work Not only For Self, But also in Honor of Those Who Made You

Not everyone gets a job to be independent.

It is a matter of being the support system the family had lacked to many.

Therefore the next time you witness a hustler, remind yourself that he or she might not be dream chasing.

They may only be in the pursuit of stability- in the people they love most.

And that, to itself, Is worth the world.