Work is all kinds of action carried out by man regardless of his characteristics or circumstances; it means all human activity that can or should be recognized as work among the many activities of which man is capable and to which he is predisposed by nature itself by virtue of his humanity.
The need to work perhaps had its origin, millennia ago, in the basic instinct of man to survive and perpetuate as a species. In that lonely and hostile world, man had to use all his potentialities to provide himself with food, make his clothes and housing, make his utensils, tools and weapons, to protect his children.
From the individual point of view, work is everything that man does for his satisfaction, joy and well-being; the whole range of activities that satisfy his primary needs, as well as achieve material and spiritual wealth for himself, his family and his country.
The person when doing a job can have different purposes. If the work is done to obtain economic gains that guarantee our subsistence, we call it “productive work” or “remunerated”.
When an activity that is common to all, that does not stop and on which our well-being and safety depend; she is "maintenance and conservation" or "daily work". It is impossible to conceive of life without this work; from fixing the bed when we get up to changing a rubber on the car or conditioning the work table.
The "social work" is the help that we give to another similar with no other intention than the help itself; which means another way to carry out actions in society that must increasingly take on importance and be part of the daily work of each member of society.
In physics, the word work is used in a different sense; It is the magnitude measured by the product of a force applied to a body and the displacement it makes in the same direction as the force, it is known as mechanical work.
There are other meanings regarding work, one of them is related to the difficulty, impediment or effort of someone; for example, it took a lot of work to get that job . Also work refers to the unfavorable situation that causes suffering, narrowness or misery; For example, Maria has had a great job in her childhood .
