Hate My Job So Much I Love It

Matthew Gates http://notetoservices.com 4m 1,041 #lovemyjob

The views of this article are the perspective of the author and may not be reflective of Confessions of the Professions.

Hating The Job You Can’t Help But Love

Happiness At Work

Busy days. Late nights. You head home, thinking about tomorrow and all the work you have to do, getting the kids ready for bed, casually talking and flirting with the wife to let her know you still love her and find her attractive, and you hold on to those parts about yourself that keep you from realizing that you have become somewhat of a mindless drone identifying itself as a human being, because tomorrow is another day at your job.

While you and the conversation with your wife is brief mentions of work, but really just talking about the kids, until time passes enough that you need to get to sleep in order to get right back into the flow of work. There is something, however, that compels you to return. For quite a few people, they are mostly just showing up for the the paycheck. For others, they actually do enjoy what they do, and get paid to do it. What makes one group different from the other?

How can we work in a place for forty hours a week, fifty two weeks out of the year, for over fifty years of our lives, and not have it change our personality? People who work in an office vs. people who work in a store setting vs. people who work in a research lab vs. people who work outside are all experiencing an atmosphere that is responsible for our personality and who we are. Of course, we can have the personality of someone who is calm inside work, but someone who is extremely loud outside of works, especially at concerts, or someone who is a bookworm, but absolutely loves dancing on the dance floor.

Work affects us so much that it is essentially our lives and who we are, who we become, and who we will always be. When you have found your passion and you manage to even take your work home with you, because it is not just your work, but your hobby, are you brainwashed into doing what you love most or have you truly discovered happiness of working in a job, or a career you love?

When work becomes more important than other aspects of your life, not because you wanted it to be most important, but because you are good at it, when can you say that your work has consumed your entire life and you are now just a worker drone bee? Regardless of whether you are at the top of the workplace hierarchy or the bottom. It may seem that the higher up you are, the more freedom you have, but in reality, it is the fact that the queen bee relies as much on her worker bees just as much as they rely on her to keep control over them.

When work becomes our obsession, our passion, our reason for making money, and a place we don’t mind showing up to for about 33% of our entire day, have we accomplished our goal of finding the work we love and getting paid to do it? We are literally immersed in the world of work, a slave to its demands. All of us do it for a paycheck, while some us actually enjoy what we do. From the stress to mundane tasks, we find ourselves going back for more because we are doing the only thing we know how to do: pretending to be adults.

In working many jobs I hated or working for greedy bosses, I found the job I love in which I could show up to work, do the job I needed to do, and got paid for it. While somewhat mundane, work does allow me to be quite creative, coming up with a bunch of new designs for a hundred different companies every year. Learning to love work is one of those big accomplishments in life that should be on a bucket list. Not everyone does get to experience the euphoria of going to work, being passionate about it, and getting paid for being passionate about it.

When I found the job of my dreams or the career of my dreams, I knew that my life was near complete. Happiness could be found in the workplace by enjoying what you do for work and getting paid to do it. When I show up to work, knowing that the next 9 hours of my life is going to be focused on work, I do try to mentally prepare each day. Yeah, sure there is an hour lunch break, but it is unpaid, and I am in the middle of a shift on the job, so technically, no one really works 8 hours anymore. We work 9 hours because our mind remains on the job even during our lunch or dinner break.

I love my job so much that I hate it. It is not that it is hard, though it can sometimes be tedious. It is that I find myself making my work an obsession. I love to research, solve problems, and fix things. That is what my job allows me to do. I do it and I do it well and without question or complaint. I have trained my mind to do the job I love and continue doing everyday, five days a week. While I don’t want to say I dream about my job, there are aspects or dimensions of my job that remain in my mind consciously and subconsciously.

Whether you work with good co-workers or bosses, who truly make the work experience what it is, you love and hate your job. You show up and do it without question, with some or a lot of effort, but always with pride. If you are going to be a slave to the labor system, you may as well find something you enjoy doing for the next some-30 years of your life working. Finding happiness between the work-life balance is important for everyone who wishes to experience the success of working. If you haven’t found it yet with your current job, you can continue working your current job to make the paycheck, but keep moving on until you find the job you love.

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