During the summer, the apple farmers sweat cultivating their orchards. So begins the Peace column in the Catholic Peace Weekly by a entrepreneur now retired.
Fully grown apples fall to the ground with the fierce autumn winds. Even when they fall and are scuffed the farmer knows how sweet and delicious they are no matter the scars they have on the outside. However, regardless of the farmer's efforts, people pay more for an apple with a a good looking surface.
Are we like that too? Is
it not true that they give more generous marks to people who look good
on the outside, and on the other hand, are there not many trying hard
to have the kind of look that will be easily chosen.
Even with one or two scars, an apple grows as sweet and full with the efforts expended by the farmers. Most importantly, apples vary depending on how well they receive the benefits of nature. It is said that the sugar content is determined by how much sunlight it receives. Even if it has flaws on the outside, it is sweet when it receives a lot of sunlight. Even if it is smooth and flawless, an apple that has not been properly exposed to sunlight is not sweet.
I think that specs determine everything, to have a good apple to look at, will in most cases determine everything. One of the things the writer regrets after leaving the world of business is giving too much importance to specs in the recruitment process.
There were often more than 10,000 applicants to select a few hundred, so in the end, the first selection is based on specifications from the screening of the documents. He can explain this situation with all kinds of excuses, but if he made up his mind to find other ways he could have done so but he feels regret that he just took it as a matter of course and didn't change. Looking back, in the end, what really mattered was to find out how good the apple was, without tasting it.
You may say that you are comfortable in a world where it is difficult to find a job these days, and your personality has nothing to do with how others view or evaluate you. Even if others see you as a scared apple, at least when you stand in front of a mirror, being open and confident depends on how ripe your apple is inside.
The word of God is like sunlight. If I received a lot of blessings and felt confident that I was a well-grown apple, I would be freer from the evaluations of others. Then, in the end, because of that attitude you would have a better chance of getting a good evaluation. Just as the sun shines on an apple, it is only natural that when a person realizes and feels that he is in God's arms, his inner self matures more fully. The problem is that even if you think about inner faithfulness like this, the opportunity itself is fundamentally blocked because of the specifications. In particular, because of the company's selection method and the absolute number of jobs being insufficient, it feels like the qualifications have become a ticket gate to the future of young people.
However, there was a survey by 'Job Korea' that found that even if you were selected to join the company after building specs, the average turnover rate after one year was 70%. Both those who build up specs and those who choose people by immersing themselves in those specs eventually face the truth only after tasting the apple.
However, the world eventually changes with its natural flow. As the problem of building qualifications and disappointment in the jobs offered by companies continue, it is clear that it will become a natural trend for young people to make other choices. Whether starting a business or self-employment, the trend to step into the world as a non-regular worker, which is relatively easy, is bound to intensify.
No matter the flow of society what is important is how mature and ripe, like the apple I am, and I who am the farmer how do I evaluate what I see? I think about that every time I look in the mirror. "Hey farmer! Am I a delicious apple grown in God's sun?"
