The Worker

Symbols

Beaver, Lodge, Fir Tree, River, Waning Gibbous, Sacred Mountain

Keywords

Effort: hard work, labor, group effort, working through obstacles, constructiveness, eagerness, making progress, little by little, persistence, staying on track, workaholic

Achievement: goals, accomplishments, results, benefit to others, completion, getting the job done

Productivity: performance, providing, realizing, producing, staying busy, making something, building

Examples

Movie Clips & Videos:

Get a job! – The Big Lebowski

Internship – The Pursuit of Happiness

Too many extra-curricular activities – Dead Poets Society

Mr Lebowski's achievements wall – The Big Lebowski,
Don't Sacrifice What You Love Just To Achieve Your Dreams,
An History of Workaholics – The Devil Wears Prada

How Do Beavers Build a Dam,
Beaver Lodge Construction Squad,
Leave It To Beavers To Solve Wildfires and Droughts

The Need For A Sacred Space (Joseph Campbell)

Podcasts:
Overboard (This American Life),
BS Jobs: How Meaningless Work Wears Us Down (Hidden Brain),
Build Grit with a Personal Project (Creative Pep Talk),
The Fiery Furnace of Ambition,
Vocation: Answering the Call (This Jungian Life)

The fading of liminal stages in exchange for liminoid experiences is marked by the shift in culture from tribal and agrarian to modern and industrial. In these societies, work and play are entirely separate whereas in more archaic societies, they are nearly indistinguishable. In the past play was interwoven with the nature of work as symbolic gestures and rites in order to promote fertility, abundance, and the passage of certain liminal phases; thus, work and play are inseparable and often dependent on social rites.

– Wikipedia: Victor Turner, Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow , and Ritual

The road to success – Alan Watts

Writings:
Animal Fable of the Beavers and the Otters for the Theme Work+Play,
Beavers, Otters, and the Symbolism of Work and Play,
Children Today are Suffering from a Serious Deficit of Play,
You Accomplished Something Great. So Now What?,
Beaver Mythology and Folklore,
Liminal to Liminoid, In Play, Flow, And Ritual (Essay by Victor Turner)

Achievement Orientation, Need for Achievement, Problem-Solving,
Manifestation, Self-Actualization, Personal development, Rite of Passage,
Microcosm-Macrocosm, Ecosystem Engineer, Workaholism, Work Ethic,
Protestant Work Ethic, Capitalism, Work, Bullshit Job, Office Work

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value, that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that's associated with being alive is what it's all about."

– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth