It has been some crazy week where there has been some rapid fire beta releases to fix bugs that crop up. Some of them were due to my stupidity, others were bugs that were always there only that they had just been found and some just appear because we are moving to different OS versions. But work has been good and as a result made me enjoy other things that I otherwise would have taken it for granted.
For one, getting rest at the end of the day (unless of course there is a looming deadline) is that much sweeter. During uni days, "work" and rest are so interleaved that we barely take the time to enjoy it. Sure this puts constraints on what we can do or cannot do but I think it is better to be in a situation where you fully appreciate something, whether it is the work you do or the rest at the end of the day/week, than to have absolute free reign of your time to dictate what you should be doing with your time. Perhaps it is just me who likes it this way. I used to work in a bookshop and it can get pretty hectic right up to closing time but when I come back home, I feel satisfied. Another reason why I am probably well suited for low to mid level type jobs. Or perhaps it is my age showing.
Another, also related to rest, are the weekends. I have done quite a lot of stuff during the weekends (but mostly pre-planned and then start firing up the spontaneity engine). Feels so much better than just lazing around at home. And yes, I finally get what you working people think about the weekends. The past couple of weekends has just been filled with many things outside the house especially this weekend with the lovely sunny warm weather. Also manage to smash a friend with alcohol.
And of course the issue of work itself. Work has always had a word-of-mouth marketing scheme of promoting itself as a soul-sucking thing that voids you of all things good in the world. But it is not so with me, maybe not yet. Perhaps it is something about being a low/mid level worker who have a "just follow instructions" mentality or have the patience to sit down and plow through the work that helps us in the resistance of the soul-sucking side of work. And when it is done, there is a genuine form of happiness/satisfaction from it and not the negatively slanted "Oh thank God this thing is over!" response.
I don't know, perhaps I might change my tune several months down the track. That I might fall into the category of millions of other people mumbling and grumbling about their work, stressed about the amount of things that they have to do, feeling numb as the months go by. I hope I don't go down that path. But I do hope that I do not complain, continue to give it my all in my work and most importantly, work is a God given thing. Work without God in mind is meaningless.
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Closing time. Moving time. A new time.
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