Occupations are important for success in life. You need a source of income and a way to provide for your families. Some people work at home, others have a schedule where you leave at a certain time every day and come home at the same time every evening. You feel comfortable in your job, but do you take the time to ask yourself why you do it? If an occupation doesn't help society or has no real purpose, then is it really a useful occupation or is it just a bunch of mindless activities? Professional athletes earn an insurmountable amount of money, but what is the purpose of professional sports? Professional sports do not help make the world a better place nor do they serve any purpose other than entertainment for the sports fanatics on this earth. What is the purpose of filmmakers and artists? How do they make the world a better place? In a way they make the world a worse place because people get so caught up in entertainment that they forget about the rest of the world, those who suffer, corrupt governments and deadly diseases. Why can't jobs be created to help in those areas? Instead of paying people to do mindless work, we should pay others to actually work to make this world a better place with a better economy and without suffering for people. In George Orwell's novel 1984 he offers an exceptional vision of senseless occupations. Winston, the main character, talks about how boring his job is at the Ministry of Plenty. He explains how his job involves changing words and meaning in newspapers, books, letters, and any other text-related material in order to make government and society the best they can be. Then, once he carries out his orders and completely changes history with his speakwrite, he takes the original information and dumps it into a memory hole that destroys it (Orwell 37). Everything Winston has to write must take the form of Newspeak, which is the English language modified and made simpler by combining words together. For example, instead of having words like “excellent” or “splendid,” you would use the word plusgood or doubleplusgood if you wanted something even stronger (Orwell 51). Another example is Winston's workplace.