Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Get a Job Sha-Na-Na-Na - Apples of Gold - July 30, 2008 -vi-

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Radio Script for July 30, 2008

“Get a Job Sha-Na-Na-Na”


Hello, I’m Doug Apple…with Apples of Gold.

Dude, you don’t quit your job until you have your next job lined up.

For one thing, all your new employers are going to want to know what happened to your last job.  Who wants to hire a quitter?

The exception would be if you have plenty of money saved up so you don’t have to mooch off anyone.  And that includes mooching off the government.

And when you are looking for a job, treat that like your job.  Start at 8 a.m. and do the hard labor of hunting for work all day.  You should put in a minimum of 8 hours a day of actually looking for a job.  You need to mentally clock in and clock out during your job hunt. 

Over the years I have run into so many people who are out of work, but who spend too little time looking.  They wrap their hopes up in that one manager who said he would call.  “He’s gonna call, I just know it!  Why should I keep looking when this job’s in the bag?”

Because no job is in the bag until you are hired

“But I’ve already applied at all the places I want to work.”

Then you better start applying at some places you don’t want to work.  Maybe God has a plan for you there, you never know. 

But whatever you do, if you are physically capable, and if you are old enough, you need to provide for yourself and not mooch off others, including your parents.

The Apostle Paul set a good example in First Thessalonians 2:9.  He said they worked hard in order to “not be a burden to anyone…”

And that’s the goal – to not be burden to anyone. 

Apparently they had a problem with that in Thessalonica.  Paul addressed the situation in both First and Second Thessalonians.

In First Thessalonians 5:14 he wrote, “…we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle…”

In chapter 4 verse 11 he told them to mind their own business and to work.

In Second Thessalonians chapter three Paul wrote, “We hear that some among you are idle…such people we command and urge to…settle down and earn the bread they eat.”

Then Paul told them not to put up with it.  In fact, in Second Thessalonians 3:6 he told them to avoid those people who weren’t prone to work.  Keep away from them, he said.

If someone doesn’t want to earn the bread they eat, guess what?  They shouldn’t get any bread at all!  Second Thessalonians 3:10 says, “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”

It sounds to me like some moochers were living off the kind-hearted Christians in Thessalonica.

So why does Paul say to stay away from them?  If you have ever dealt with moochers, you know why.  Because moochers are pot-stirrers.  They play on people’s emotions, and when they sense opposition, they know how to stir it up.  Listen to how Paul describes them in Second Thessalonians 3:11, “They are not busy; they are busybodies.”

What do you call a moocher who is not a smooth talker?  There aren’t any!  Who wants to help a rough talker?  Nobody, so to be a good moocher you have to be a good talker. 

So they don’t work, but spend all their time talking.  They get into everyone’s business, then play that to their advantage – anything to get what they want without working.  They will manipulate and lie if they have to.  This is why Paul says to avoid them.  People like this usually won’t change until they realize that if they want to eat, they are going to have to work.

Back when my dad was in high school one of the most popular songs was called “Get a Job” by The Silhouettes.  It went like this:

(play this portion of the song)

“Get a job – Sha na na na, sha na na na na (bah-doo) Sha na na na, sha na na na na”

The song is from the point of view of an unemployed young man. Everyday his mother gets him out of bed with these words, “Get a job.”  One lyric goes like this, “At breakfast every day she throws the want ads my way, and never fails to say ‘Get a job.’”

The guy even says that his girlfriend is hunting down jobs for him!  Then every day he tells his mom there aren’t any jobs out there, so she starts, “Preachin’ and a-cryin’, tellin’ me I’m lyin’ about a job.”

If the Apostle Paul would have had a podcast, I think this is the song he would have used to close out his message to a few of those Thessalonians:

(begin playing more of the song)

Comments?

E-mail me:  dougapple@wave94.com.

May God bless you today!  With Apples of Gold…I’m Doug Apple.

(end program with more of the song)


One more thought.  This is a good reason to get a good education – to put yourself in a better to position to provide for yourself and not end up being a burden to others.
 
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