What is meant by "meaningful" in this context?

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Aide et Action is working with an aim of reaching out to at least 100 thousand youth by the end of 2008 in different parts of Indian subcontinent through iLEAD and help them get into *meaningful* and sustained employment opportunities.

Answer 1

It could either mean "significant" (that is, with a decent pay/hours or potential for promotion leading to decent pay/hour) or, perhaps more likely, "fulfilling" (in which case the jobs feel like they provide "meaning" to one's life, making one feel like "part of something bigger than oneself", as the saying goes). A meaningful job probably wouldn't mean temp or intern work, and would probably involve a sense that one is doing what one loves and/or helping those who need help.

Answer 2

I assume it means the kind of employment that gives your life purpose or meaning. Some social programs in the past have tried to assist people by creating new jobs, but they often were not important, just a fabricated excuse to give people a paycheck if they showed up to work. Those types of jons were neither meaningful nor sustained, and they certainly didn't do anything more than provide a temporary fix, may as well have been collecting welfare.

Answer 3

The American Heritage Dictionary defines "Meaningful" as adjective - Having meaning, function, or purpose.

For a job to be meaningful, it must meet at least one of these criteria.

A job of digging a ditch to aid in irrigation would be meaningful.
A job that digs holes just to fill them again would not be. This is also known as "make work" or "useless work".

Answer 4

If you had the simple and unnecessary job of taking passports from boarding passengers and handing them to customs personnel, standing two feet away from you in any given Indian airport, then you have a less then meaningful employment. When a "poor" government is trying to provide job opportunities to a billion plus people, it has to be "creative".

Answer 5

Those who know the truth knows 'Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Wahhab' was no more than a scholar and also a reformer like the many in the Islamic history. The British used the term 'Wahhabi' to scare Muslims of the true teachings of Islam and later some amongst Muslims also made it a label to distinguish one another. So far no office or people in the name of 'Wahhabi' is found anywhere. Just a label that's uttered by those creating Fitna.

Answer 6

Meaningful means two things, in this context: First, that the job is stable. If your job is only to help someone move their furniture, for one day, that is not a meaningful job. IN addition to being stable, the job should also help the person to learn some useful skill that he/she can use later in life in other jobs. For example, if you work 20 years, only filling gas in cars, you have not learned anything worthwhile, really. So, meaningful here means a job that is stable and useful.

Answer 7

Meaningful employment opportunities sounds like jobs that help others or make a difference in your community. It could also mean skilled jobs rather than fast food or retail, for example.

Peace!

Answer 8

It means employment that has a purpose to the person doing the job. Since what is meaningful to one person isn't necessarily meaningful to the other, exactly what constitutes "meaningful employment" is subjective.

Answer 9

See Websters Dictionary.

Answer 10

It means worthwhile and long lasting. Not dead-end jobs that go nowhere, but work that offers them a future and opportunity.