Work, by this context, is a job or activity that you do regularly especially in order to earn money.
Work is not easy. That's why we actually get paid for it. So until the time we are financially free, we cannot escape work. Until then, we all have two choices: work and complain or work and enjoy.
In this case, since this is my 365 Days of Happy Project, i would like to share some tips on a happier "working" YOU!
1. Go to work early. Or at least fifteen to twenty minutes before your actual time-in.
- Most of the time, our day starts bad JUST BECAUSE we are late. The stress that comes with it in beating the clock, cursing and swearing because traffic is not moving or what-not, is to quote my boss, "the source of hypertension and heart attack".
2. Make a to-do list. Write it down.
- Seriously. I admire people who can afford not to write things down. When you receive more than hundreds of emails a day, I think it is imperative to be able to jot down what you need to do. Unless you have a perfect memory, writing things down saves you from the embarrassment when your boss asks you about the things you need to do and you missed on it. Most of the information we encounter every day cannot be retained in our brain. According to www.human-memory.net, your short-term memory is like a Post-it note and can only retain 7 items or less in 15 seconds. Now unless you can take a picture of that mental Post-it of yours, save yourself the future hassle and WRITE IT DOWN. You won't only feel efficient but you save yourself the stress, the embarrassment and can result to a stress-free, good (even, happy) day at the office!
3. Be grateful.
- We all know this. Recession in different countries resulting to mass lay-offs. Unemployment rate increasing. If you are in a position or a role where at the very least, you get to do what you enjoy doing (like me for example, I apply some of my writing when I do company publications), be grateful. When you are at a company where your team is not dysfunctional and you actually like working with them, be grateful. There are so many things to complain about: pay scale, workload and so on. You will still get all or some of this in any other company. So until the time that you can stand on your own and be financially independent, weigh your pros and cons. Maybe, just maybe, it is not THAT bad where you are right now.
4. Inject fun ALL the time BUT do not lose sight of what you are required to do at the end of the day.
- Efficiency does not mean we have to work like drones. I love the fact that I work with a crazy bunch of people who knows how to have fun and to deliver things at the same time. We spend almost half of our day, five times a week in the office. The least that we could do is to make it a bearable environment :)
Soo, those are the things I can purge from my brain right now. I am still reeling from a retarded, funny SIMS conversation with my teammates when we were finishing our requirements for today.
How about you? What did you do to make work fun today?
xx,
Corporate Junkie
