Each day, people wake up and do all kinds of things with their time. Some go to work in an office and file paperwork. Others troubleshoot networking issues for their companies. I sell supplies to builders and decorators. I manage people that sell items to the same customers. I open doors, wipe off tables, make schedules, hang signs, even build things in my store. This last bit I love the most.
My company is basically like a small hardware store with a massive lumber and building supplies yard behind. I spend 99% of my time in the showroom. I know that what I'm doing isn't that important. But, basically, I get to build displays from scratch for many items on our showroom. On days when I get to build stuff, my job does not suck. In fact, I enjoy it.
Building, creating: these are things that are important in life. One might only spend a small time creating something that is greater than the sum of its parts and understand this idea. When you tap into it, be active in creating, you feel the satisfaction it produces. In a way it feels similarly satisfying to exercise. You just don't feel as good about life if you don't exercise. The same, I feel, could be said about invention, expression, and creating purpose out of one's actions.
It's important to enjoy or take pride in one's work. Otherwise it's all about the money and that's really no good to anyone. Why do anything if you don't love it? I know that's hasty and naive but you only get one life. How can you spend it laboring aimlessly just to score enough dough to scrape by unhappily? You'd have to have a family that you really need the job for money to provide them the things they need.
Maybe I shouldn't look at it that way. I guess anyone could get a job doing anything and find a way to love it. I suppose someone could find joy frying fish, carrying out the grease every night, hosing down the kitchen. Some people could probably. I couldn't. I guess I got lucky with my current job.
There are little to no real responsibilities to attend to other than my asshole employees who call in sick once a week at least. No, I don't enjoy them. But I also don't focus on them. Lucky again, I really don't mix personal and professional lives.
Enough ranting...
The days are definitely getting longer. The weather is much more tolerable than the previous month or so. No snow has fallen in about a week. The arriving spring is a wonderful feeling. When your bones are tired and rigid from all the cold, just the idea of spring approaching is enough to lighten anyone's spirit.
I am certainly in good spirits today. I must be manic............jk.
My company is basically like a small hardware store with a massive lumber and building supplies yard behind. I spend 99% of my time in the showroom. I know that what I'm doing isn't that important. But, basically, I get to build displays from scratch for many items on our showroom. On days when I get to build stuff, my job does not suck. In fact, I enjoy it.
Building, creating: these are things that are important in life. One might only spend a small time creating something that is greater than the sum of its parts and understand this idea. When you tap into it, be active in creating, you feel the satisfaction it produces. In a way it feels similarly satisfying to exercise. You just don't feel as good about life if you don't exercise. The same, I feel, could be said about invention, expression, and creating purpose out of one's actions.
It's important to enjoy or take pride in one's work. Otherwise it's all about the money and that's really no good to anyone. Why do anything if you don't love it? I know that's hasty and naive but you only get one life. How can you spend it laboring aimlessly just to score enough dough to scrape by unhappily? You'd have to have a family that you really need the job for money to provide them the things they need.
Maybe I shouldn't look at it that way. I guess anyone could get a job doing anything and find a way to love it. I suppose someone could find joy frying fish, carrying out the grease every night, hosing down the kitchen. Some people could probably. I couldn't. I guess I got lucky with my current job.
There are little to no real responsibilities to attend to other than my asshole employees who call in sick once a week at least. No, I don't enjoy them. But I also don't focus on them. Lucky again, I really don't mix personal and professional lives.
Enough ranting...
The days are definitely getting longer. The weather is much more tolerable than the previous month or so. No snow has fallen in about a week. The arriving spring is a wonderful feeling. When your bones are tired and rigid from all the cold, just the idea of spring approaching is enough to lighten anyone's spirit.
I am certainly in good spirits today. I must be manic............jk.