“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.