Cup of ginseng guardian blend tea drunk, washing up from breakfast and lunch soaking, carpet vacuumed, dog walked and snoozing quietly..so for me it’s time to reflect.
This is my Saturday, it’s only Wednesday but I work in an industry that thrives on weekend work. My career has always been centered around weekend work, I’ve had a few Monday to Friday jobs but I always seem to gravitate back to weekends. There’s something joyous about having weekdays off – I convinced myself of that years ago and it still sits well with me. Weekdays off mean no queues, less traffic, less people about generally, a satisfying feeling of being off while everyone else works. It must be how weekend people feel except they have to battle the crowds of others.
Work has defined me and my life over the years. It’s taught me a lot but I still seem to keep learning, each job presents new challenges – new people to work with and new things to earn. I love new challenges and meeting new people so I’ve changed jobs a few times in my life.
But why is it that I always seem to end up clashing with someone, why is there always someone that seems to be working off a different page to me. Someone that I just don’t get – their approach to work, people, life or just me just doesn’t sit right in the Grand Scheme of things.
Sometimes I feel as though I’ve been put in a workplace to ‘sort out the issues’!
It makes it very hard for me – I always feel as though I have a battle on. It’s not usually like that from the outset – initially everyone seems ok – with varying degrees of ok-ness. I try to be as ‘good’ as I can, learning as quick as I can, learning names, places, procedures, processes so that I create as little disruption as possible. It’s always hard introducing a new person into a job, someone has to babysit them, train them and adapt to the new energy that this newbie brings. We walk around each other, assessing each other, what kind of shoes, what accent, what hair style, what lunch selection, tea or coffee..we assess to see if we can pigeon hole the new person ‘Aaahh they drink coffee, like short hair, eat a healthy salad, like comfortable shoes and sound like they’re from the South somewhere’.
One day I’d like to find myself in a job where everyone just gets on because they are so driven and passionate about what we are doing that personal petty issues are an unknown entity. Where we accept each others short comings because we are all driven for the greater good of whatever we are doing, we embrace each others failings because they’re strengths are so amazing that we don’t know what we would do without them on our team and we know that we need them on our team to get the job done.
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