Hard Labor/Hard work, opinion on differences?

[AgriTrack]

Hard labourers aften earn lessand they do most of the hard jobs of which they are supposed to earn high because of the kind of work they do, I have several of them around me i knew them when I was small they are hire for anything hard labour, like breaking stones, digging of holes breaking ground and carrying heavy loads etc and yet they are still poor at old age, sometimes too we don't need to work hard to better our future what we need sometimes is working smart.

Labor hard or hard work both required effort. One involves in physical effort or other is involved in mental effort. Earning wise there is huge gaps between these two. Labor hard is an effort that everyone can do but hard work is an effort that is  not possible for everyone. Because skills, ability or passion is involved in hard work. Labor hard usually underestimated in monetary term.  Sometime Labor used to spend 16-18 hrs for his work but his salary against his effort is not satisfactory. Usually term smart work is referred for hardwork. It's earning depends upon experience, uniqueness and opportunities . More you work in smart ways more you get well and higher amount. While physical work is referred for Labor hard, or it's earning depends upon the hours of work , a type of overtime. If a labor want high salary he has to spend more working hours.

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To the best of my knowledge,hard labor has nothing to do with creating wealth,it's just one working tirelessly to achieve a goal, which maybe possible or may not too it goes both ways , but hard work requires one mental capacity and skill to be able to achieve your desire goal, it's more like working smart,which cannot be compared to someone who is over laboring himself.

[Etranger]

There is no difference if you are asking the difference between the words. Work and labour mean almost the same thing, and in this case, if we are talking about "doing it to make money" then it's the same thing in English as far as I know. I mean you have things like "labour of love" type of meanings too, but it is not really the same thing as what we are talking about.

Working super hard on something is important but knowing what you are working towards is even more important, because if someone can do in 30 minutes what you do in 20 hours, then your hard work means nothing. Overall, hard work alone is not enough always, which means that you need to be wiser to convert your works to be done in smarter way with the help of automation or tools or out-sourcing or etc.

English is not my native language, so I cannot perceive word nuances as deeply as I do in Ukrainian and Russian. However, I have read quite a lot in English, and based on my observations, the word 'labor' was more frequently encountered in the context of repetitive actions, usually manual and tied to routine activity. On the other hand, 'work' had a direction, a vector; it was more often used in an intellectual context and carried a foundation of purposefulness, personal expression, and even a calling. Therefore, in my (rather poetic) view, a difference does exist. A person has a personal connection to 'work', they invest themselves in it through actions and thoughts, whereas 'labor' feels more alienated.

[junder]

To the best of my knowledge,hard labor has nothing to do with creating wealth,it's just one working tirelessly to achieve a goal, which maybe possible or may not too it goes both ways , but hard work requires one mental capacity and skill to be able to achieve your desire goal, it's more like working smart,which cannot be compared to someone who is over laboring himself.

You’re right that hard work means working tirelessly to achieve a goal whether you succeed or not but the reason most people work hard is to achieve success in life. One of the reasons is to secure a comfortable life through their hard work as the saying goes if you don’t push yourself physically and mentally now, you’ll end up with nothing when you’re old.

In comparison working smart is certainly the right choice, but not everyone can do it so they choose the option of working hard and that’s not a bad thing either.

[MRY]

You’re right that hard work means working tirelessly to achieve a goal whether you succeed or not but the reason most people work hard is to achieve success in life. One of the reasons is to secure a comfortable life through their hard work as the saying goes if you don’t push yourself physically and mentally now, you’ll end up with nothing when you’re old.

In comparison working smart is certainly the right choice, but not everyone can do it so they choose the option of working hard and that’s not a bad thing either.

The only tool that will be of service when building future is hard work. There are lot of successful people around that started out by sweating and being disciplined, and only then got to be efficient and intelligent in their work. Appreciation of hard work as way of life is expression of respect for the struggle to make a better and stable future.

[Samlucky O]

I was reading across this thread Just hard work doesn't guarantee wealth anymore., and reading through a few comments, I assume to see a slight of misunderstanding about the difference between HARD LABOR and HARD WORK.

I've got this feeling that doing hard labor doesn't mean working hard, wrong or right?

Edit: Hard labor explained as may not be understandable at first.

Surely looking at the context, you will understand that hard labour and hard work are not thesame thing, the interpretation differs from people understand and interpret it. Some may see both as thesame whil some have objection to it. Like me I don't see both as thesame thing, hard work means a very stressful and tedious work that requires you to work with you strength all day, and may not recieve your reword according to the stress. The outcome doesn't just reciprocate the labour. But someone who work hard may still stuffer and get something in return.

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Surely looking at the context, you will understand that hard labour and hard work are not thesame thing, the interpretation differs from people understand and interpret it. Some may see both as thesame whil some have objection to it. Like me I don't see both as thesame thing, hard work means a very stressful and tedious work that requires you to work with you strength all day, and may not recieve your reword according to the stress. The outcome doesn't just reciprocate the labour. But someone who work hard may still stuffer and get something in return.

Hard work is not the same as hard labor, but hard labor can also be considered hard work if you dedicate most of your time to that work and carry it out with clear purpose.

Hard work is simply persistence, investing a lot of time and effort in a purposeful way toward specific goal. So anyone who works 12-16 hours a day is working hard, regardless of their income.

[Yeesha]

I was reading across this thread Just hard work doesn't guarantee wealth anymore., and reading through a few comments, I assume to see a slight of misunderstanding about the difference between HARD LABOR and HARD WORK.

I've got this feeling that doing hard labor doesn't mean working hard, wrong or right?

Edit: Hard labor explained as may not be understandable at first.

There is differences between hard labour and hard work. Hard work is all about dedicating your life in order to achieve something great, it requires putting in your effort, and time just to ensure that you meets your goals and desires.

While hard labour is all about going something or physical work that is beyond your control, limits, and above your capacity which requires a lot of strength and energy, and can exhaust your energy within a short period of time. Doing a work that is beyond or above your energy can lead to stress, anxiety, frustration and tiredness. Despite being strong enough to handle the pressure, the most important thing is to prioritise your health over everything.

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hard work requires one mental capacity and skill to be able to achieve your desire goal, it's more like working smart,which cannot be compared to someone who is over laboring himself.

As long as you're putting in extra effort to ensure that you get things done in a better way, you're certainly an hardworking person. While you're working hard, you can as well work smart at the same time. At the end, what matters is the result that Comes from your labour.

If the end goal is to make a particular amount of money at the end of the month, it doesn't matter wether you suffered more than get that same amount while someone else didn't suffer that much. What actually matters is that you've gotten to the expected end and that you were able to achieve your goal. In most cases, it's the one that works smart that achieves more because the person tends to consider all options and make his decision from the stand point of a well carried out analysis of all that's involved. To get wealth you need to work hard and still still build the relevant skills while making yourself available for any opportunities that might present itself.

[Pablo-wood]

As long as you're putting in extra effort to ensure that you get things done in a better way, you're certainly an hardworking person. While you're working hard, you can as well work smart at the same time. At the end, what matters is the result that Comes from your labour.

If the end goal is to make a particular amount of money at the end of the month, it doesn't matter wether you suffered more than get that same amount while someone else didn't suffer that much. What actually matters is that you've gotten to the expected end and that you were able to achieve your goal. In most cases, it's the one that works smart that achieves more because the person tends to consider all options and make his decision from the stand point of a well carried out analysis of all that's involved. To get wealth you need to work hard and still still build the relevant skills while making yourself available for any opportunities that might present itself.

Any end goal that requires excessive labor will be detrimental to the individual. In our current society everyone wants to do so much within the shortest minimum time without overstressing themselves. Suffering to get a result that can be achieved without suffering is like putting heavy burden on yourself. One thing about life is adaptability, those who adapt earlier starts enjoying life early and those who are bent on doing things the old traditional way ends up over laboring to meet up.

[JoyMarsha]

Hard work is being committed and dedicated to whatever goal you want to achieve either personally or with a group. However, hard work doesn't guarantee riches but it wil make you succeed in achieving your goal. Riches comes from God and not man which is the reason why you see that not everyone that is hardworking is rich in life. Hard labor is manual physical work that's exhausting and needs strength.

Riches is from God not man as the Bible made us to believe. Still in the same Bible, God made a promise that he will bless the works of our hands. Which means everyone should have something doing that God should bless them through that. Not everyone will God bless on earth. Some people will be poor, some will be rich despite being hardworking. That's the reality of life.

[serjent05]

There is no difference if you are asking the difference between the words. Work and labour mean almost the same thing, and in this case, if we are talking about "doing it to make money" then it's the same thing in English as far as I know. I mean you have things like "labour of love" type of meanings too, but it is not really the same thing as what we are talking about.

Working super hard on something is important but knowing what you are working towards is even more important, because if someone can do in 30 minutes what you do in 20 hours, then your hard work means nothing. Overall, hard work alone is not enough always, which means that you need to be wiser to convert your works to be done in smarter way with the help of automation or tools or out-sourcing or etc.

English is not my native language, so I cannot perceive word nuances as deeply as I do in Ukrainian and Russian. However, I have read quite a lot in English, and based on my observations, the word 'labor' was more frequently encountered in the context of repetitive actions, usually manual and tied to routine activity. On the other hand, 'work' had a direction, a vector; it was more often used in an intellectual context and carried a foundation of purposefulness, personal expression, and even a calling. Therefore, in my (rather poetic) view, a difference does exist. A person has a personal connection to 'work', they invest themselves in it through actions and thoughts, whereas 'labor' feels more alienated.

the things is that the word should not be separated since the true meaning needs both word together.  One example is one of the earlier reply separate the words and define them, making the word labor and work synonyms since they are actualy have the same meaning, but hard labor and hard work are not.

So, in understanding words, we must take the words as is and get the meaning from the context. 

[GiftedMAN]

To the best of my knowledge,hard labor has nothing to do with creating wealth,it's just one working tirelessly to achieve a goal, which maybe possible or may not too it goes both ways , but hard work requires one mental capacity and skill to be able to achieve your desire goal, it's more like working smart,which cannot be compared to someone who is over laboring himself.

working hard doesn't really means doing a difficult job to earn a living it is also another way of recognizing someone who has giving his all to ensure that he achieves his targets in a particular field of job or study, the other aspect are those who do cumbersome jobs they put in a lot of efforts and energy to work every day to make sure they get paid so they can take care of their families it doesn't really means that because they are doing those difficult jobs they will be wealthy infact doing difficult jobs doesn't guarantee a wealthy living it only gives you pay for survival.

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Hard work is being committed and dedicated to whatever goal you want to achieve either personally or with a group. However, hard work doesn't guarantee riches but it wil make you succeed in achieving your goal. Riches comes from God and not man which is the reason why you see that not everyone that is hardworking is rich in life. Hard labor is manual physical work that's exhausting and needs strength.

Riches is from God not man as the Bible made us to believe. Still in the same Bible, God made a promise that he will bless the works of our hands. Which means everyone should have something doing that God should bless them through that. Not everyone will God bless on earth. Some people will be poor, some will be rich despite being hardworking. That's the reality of life.

From a spiritual perspective, it can be said that everything we have is a gift from God. However, the realities of life still require us to take proactive action and make an effort if we want to achieve success

I do not think God will grant anyone wealth if they just spend all day praying and hoping God will take notice of them. Instead, I believe that God only gives opportunities to those who dare to stand up and act, persevere, and strive tirelessly


The reality of life is that hard work does not guarantee wealth, but wealth will never come if we do not work hard.

[Etranger]

infact doing difficult jobs doesn't guarantee a wealthy living it only gives you pay for survival.

It varies. Sometimes difficult work really pays off financially. Usually, this happens in developed countries with strong economies, where society has learned to value the professions it couldn't exist without. For example, doctors in Switzerland earn a very substantial salary, even though they are employees rather than self-employed. They are respected, and this is demonstrated by the willingness of both the state as a whole and individual cantons and private clinics to pay them deservedly well.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Yea, often times this is being misunderstood by some persons but it can translate to different meaning, such that "hard work" Will mean a  task that is very difficult and hard to do, same thing as "hard labour" Which can also mean doing a difficult thing that is not do easy or less stressful. You can be told to work hard  which doesn't also necessarily mean that you should do difficult jobs or labor but it means that you should not be lazy, rather be diligent and consistent in what you are doing because that's what might cause you to have the success you want to achieve. Speaking of which, working a 9-5 job is not easy, but you just have to encourage yourself to do it all work day of the week while you raise money to invest in other assets that can help you achieve the financial freedom you want. Working hard, having the right knowledge and seeking the right information can contribute to make the person rich.

[Jewan420]

I was reading across this thread Just hard work doesn't guarantee wealth anymore., and reading through a few comments, I assume to see a slight of misunderstanding about the difference between HARD LABOR and HARD WORK.

I've got this feeling that doing hard labor doesn't mean working hard, wrong or right?

Edit: Hard labor explained as may not be understandable at first.

No job guarantees wealth and no job guarantees wealth. Rather, what kind of work you do and in which country you work is important. There are still some countries where Hard Labor is valued. Since Hard Labor refers to physical labor, such as farming, construction workers, and jobs that rely on physical strength. If you can work hard in countries like Korea, Japan, and Italy, you might be able to create wealth. Because these countries respect farming, physical labor.

Hard work is not limited to physical labor alone. Rather, it is a combination of physical labor and mental labor. Even in the case of hard work, your strong determination plays the biggest role. For example, realizing the dream of becoming a doctor or an engineer or realizing something for which you have to work hard for a long time. Here too, there is no guarantee of getting rich.

[justdimin]

I was reading across this thread Just hard work doesn't guarantee wealth anymore., and reading through a few comments, I assume to see a slight of misunderstanding about the difference between HARD LABOR and HARD WORK.

I've got this feeling that doing hard labor doesn't mean working hard, wrong or right?

We can't possibly know what the people are going to be successful and how, everyone has different ways. I just saw a video on Instagram where a dude got rich working towards POKEMON CARDS, like that makes no sense to me. I assumed it was something that child's do, and yet this dude basically made that into business, he worked really hard towards building a whole portfolio out of it and that results with them actually having something a lot.

Yes, if you buy a few cards it may not be big, but that dude spent tens of thousands of dollars building his portfolio and eventually got to a point where he had great ones too and he was literally building a shop from it. So I guarantee you, money comes from all kinds of unknown places, and these are not really that much of a known thing to you before you actually go into it.

[AmoreJaz]

Yea, often times this is being misunderstood by some persons but it can translate to different meaning, such that "hard work" Will mean a  task that is very difficult and hard to do, same thing as "hard labour" Which can also mean doing a difficult thing that is not do easy or less stressful. You can be told to work hard  which doesn't also necessarily mean that you should do difficult jobs or labor but it means that you should not be lazy, rather be diligent and consistent in what you are doing because that's what might cause you to have the success you want to achieve. Speaking of which, working a 9-5 job is not easy, but you just have to encourage yourself to do it all work day of the week while you raise money to invest in other assets that can help you achieve the financial freedom you want. Working hard, having the right knowledge and seeking the right information can contribute to make the person rich.

Bottomline, as long as you are doing a job, whether it is hard labor or doing hard work, it all boils down to earning income to support your living. And it is up to you how you will strategize to invest and improve your economic status. Of course, if you are doing the 9-5 job, I don't think you can get rich here. Unless, you have other side hustles, which you may earn more money.