Sunday, September 13, 2009

So do you like your Job?



This one is about zeal. If you are component of the business world, there’s an invariable catchphrase that is heard frequently "I hate my job" or "This is not what I was meant to do". The consequence is "I am an underpaid and overworked nerd" or "If it wasn’t for money, I’d not be working here" etc etc etc.

Seated in a workspace captivated by three molded walls and a nosy manager, it is effortless to take a verdict call on your profession. However the reality is that it actually is your livelihood and your source of your daily bread and butter (or daal roti in a clichéd filmy lingo) .Majority of us see our zeal as an escapist method to dodge our everyday unexciting jobs. The phrases and feeling usually begin with- “What if I could do ….”

There are several people who adore their job - study, accountancy, project management, central excise software preservation, traffic policeman or yet printing invoices every day. For these people their profession is their obsession. Every scrap of their power they invest in their job counts for them as an accomplishment. I have met individuals who can rant about their familiarity in most fresh technologies and even those who can view at a modern software program and work captivated until they split the crucial particulars of it. See around you. There are more than a few of them. This is not to articulate that they are boring outside their job. More often than not they are not. They have interests other than their jobs and they nurture it too.

There is a second category of individuals who have an immense zeal for something, for instance, photography, dance, writing, driving, music, cooking or crafts. They are the kinds who renounce their actual 9-5 jobs jobs to be their own managers. We know, it is hard for someone who is zealous about, say, art to work under someone else’s authority as it curbs their passion. For the reason that passion for art is a channel of one’s own imagination, it is complicated to modify some strokes of brush and colors because your manager doesn't approve of it. Similarly, if I write something of my own, I don't really wish an editor to barge in and snip my writing style to a bonsai - I write it for the reason because that’s how I would like it to be. These are the kind of individuals who opt for the trail less trampled and work on their own, for their zeal. They work since they love it - the monetary perk is a spin-off and it typically happens. The path can be extended or difficult or both and many do hit the big time - the accomplishments in fulfillment are enormous. As expected, this path is not unproblematic and it entails a vertical climb till you make it to the top.

Most of the individuals view their work or profession and zeal as distinctive. Amongst these, are people who do their jobs earnestly - acknowledge it for what it is and the way it is and give full justice to it. "My work fetches me the funds and I will do fairness to it". If they do choose to work on fervor or music and art, it is different from their job. Some of them persist to work on their zeal, while for many others, it is gone astray on the path - while few look forward to their kids to work on their own discontented desires and passions!

The last category of individuals is those who look forward for someone else to inculcate zeal into their work. That, regrettably, will never come about. Either you are zealous about your work or you seek out your zeal outside of job or you yourself withdraw and translate your zeal into your job. There is no other alternative. No talent reconnoiter or Robinhood is ever going to notice you if you don't do something on your own. If you are a singer, you better sing or if you are a writer, you must write ! Beyond the mountains of songs(or articles), one (or many) turn out to be diamonds (from the heap of coal) - the remaining is just a progression of discovery. Just like in cricket, you have to score well in the lackluster singles, wait for the opportunities to strike the sixes and all of it sums up to the magical number of a century. All those dull singles and the huge hits build a bright career and job .

So what is the objective of this blogpost? Carry on doing what you love doing, irrespective of your job and as my father once taught me, "If you are a star in this galaxy, keep doing your bit and you are sure to be spotted someday" and I must include, if not by somebody else, you are bound to certainly discover yourself!

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