“Do you enjoy your work?”

A funny story:

A man was walking in a park, taking pictures as he went along. He saw 2 men in workmen’s overalls. One of them had a shovel, digging a hole in the park. Then another guy comes along and covers the hole. After that, they move to another spot and the first guy digs another hole while the 2nd guy covers again.

The man thought, “ My gosh, what are these two guys doing? Dig a hole, cover it. Dig a hole, cover it.”

When he could not contain it anymore, he went to the 2 guys and said, “Excuse me, what are you doing?”

The first guy said, “Well, you see, we’re supposed to be 3 guys here. The government pays me to dig a hole. The government pays this other guys to cover the hole. The guy who’s supposed to be between us is sick. He’s absent but we have to work. The guy in the middle is supposed to plant a tree, but he’s not here.” (toink)

Some employees know what to do, but they don’t know why they do what they do. They think that’s the only way to make a living, not knowing why they are doing there in the first place.

When I asked people, “Do you enjoy your work?” the most common answer I get are “Yes” and “Well, work is work. It puts food on the table.” OR “I can’t be choosy, I am lucky I got the job with the global crisis right now, its really hard to find any job at all”.

There are so many wonderful ways of putting food on the table, why pick something that you don’t enjoy? And worst, you got very little income that is not enough to feed your 4 kids and not compensating your value as an employee (working yourself to death and agreeing to every task your boss ask you to do).

I know a lot of my friends and acquaintances who work the 9am to 5pm shift and being payed very little. Worst, they travel 1 hr from home to work and they have to wake up very early to feed their kids, take a shower, dress up, eat, etc before going to work and usually they are late on their work.







I always believe that when you FEEL DISGUST (I know, it’s a strong word and this usually put as a negative term) BUT when you feel you have enough with what your current life is you WANT CHANGE, you NEED CHANGE in your life. Sadly, most people only do is complain, they put all their energy into their complain on how sick they are with their life BUT THEY NEVER CHANGE.

As they say, “ until you have a BIG reason behind the action, the easier the action is”. UNTIL you find REASON WHY YOU WANT TO CHANGE that’s the time you are open and willing to see other option and willing to embrace change in your life.

There are other means of livelihood. I don’t know if you have heard the work of a VIRTUAL ASSISTANT (VA) or a home based online job. In here, you don’t need to dress up and travel, you work at home and what’s wonderful you earn $ per hour for that and you can spend time with your children.

I will be telling you in my next blog “HOW TO BE A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT (VA)” and also FINDING JOB IN ODESK.COM, until next time.