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"We could hardly wait to get up
in the morning. I know that exhilarating feeling of being so passionate about
something I was working on that I couldn't wait to get back to work. And people
who are winning at working
know that kind of passion, too" Wilbur Wright, of the Wright brothers fame.
Once there was a young man,
working as an electrician in an electrical appliances manufacturing company, who
actually didn't like his job, because he knew he had all the capabilities of
getting a decent job than this, however he settle for this job. You see everyone
settled in any field, without losing the hope that one day, he would get his
dream job, which would provide him money as well as satisfaction. In his case,
nothing happened for long, even till his retirement. Everyday when he came home
from work, he told his wife about his day at work, how
terrible the day had been, how tiring the work and how unreasonable his boss.
Every day as usual his wife said "Leave that job,". "Oh I will" he said. But not
yet. I have many friends there, hence I am not thinking to leave it now."
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Every day he complained to his wife, his wife replied with the usual
suggestions, this continued for long, until the days became years and her family
grew to five. "Leave the job," his children told him. "Oh I will" he said. "But
not yet. I have seniority and chances of promotion and a decent bonus, which I
can spend for providing you best education. I'm not ready to start over just
yet. And so he remained unhappy at work until the years became decades and his
children grew and they had children. "Leave the job," her grandchildren told
him. "Oh I will," she
said. "But not yet. There's only seven more years until I reach thirty years of
service and then I can have some decent retirement benefits. So I can not leave
it now."
And finally, one day, he retired from the services, without much visible
elevation from his initial stages, in wages and his position, even though the
company knew that he was a good electrician the company could have, like any
other such persons, he came home with a garland in his hand and a pack of gift
in other hand, a taxi was hired to drop him at home, he smiled at his children
and grand children and said "Finally I left the job". They did mum on his words,
as they knew this was a thing to happen one day.
After retirement, he set up an electrical workshop, where he started to work on
his own ways, innovation and creation are the catchword of the workshop, as
these things he liked to do it in the company, where he worked. Since, he was an
excellent electrician, his workshop prospered and within in years, it grew and
doubled its capacity into famous workshop of the town, he introduced various
innovative ideas like maintenance free electrical appliances and novel ways to
reduce electric consumption in household electrical appliances and likewise
items. He was very happy there, his sons also joined him and helped him the
company to prosper further. He never thought that if this could have been done
at a very earlier stage than working under some managers and for meager
salaries, had him avoided the disappointing times in his life, however that was
the life's experience, anyway at the later stage he could atleast manage to do
something on his own.
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I know this person, he was my uncle and we know many people like him. Some
people, who settle for where they are, what they're doing, and how they're doing
the job, not seeing the opportunities or underestimate their capabilities and
settle for some less attractive opportunities and every day complained to his
spouse and children, the job is no good. People who have planted their feet in a
cushion of comfort, even though they feel the job was not that much attractive,
but stay in the job, lacking the courage to move from what is to what could be.
People experience work like a four letter word and doing nothing to change it. |
We convince ourselves the pain is not bad enough to leave the workplace we know,
where actually we feel a homelike situation and when we leave we feel the home
sickness. But we are wrong. Prolonged work pain is damaging. Some damages our
self-esteem, kills our passion or destroys our dreams. Some emerges when we
compromise our values, quiet our voice or hide our talent. Some happens when we
are scored by power or believe our own myths of importance and significance.
Some occurs when we look the other way, say yes when we mean no or forfeit the
promises we made to ourselves. But later in our life, we feel the heat that if
we could
have done this then this had been the case, but initial stages of life, we
somehow manages to work for various employers, even if we were having the
capabilities of doing something alternative which could give us the
satisfaction, which we sought for long.
People get excited about work, they surprise others by offering their unique
skills and talents, though they do not get compensated what they offered. When
things change as they sometimes will, they refuse to let a hostile work
environment hijack their self-esteem, passion or dreams. When work becomes work,
they experience the pain of the heartrending feeling of bad office, bad boss,
and bad environment, however they do not ready to take the otherwise views how
to become somebody. They actually lying on a nail, which give uncomfortable
felling of a pain.
Contributed By:
Satish Nair
satish.nair@adityabirla.com
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