doing what you like is freedom, but liking what you do is happiness!!!
Jump to Page:
< Previous [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Next >
Posted on: 25-08-09 11:58:59
One evening a scholar was addressing the participants on the concept of work culture.
One of the participants asked the following question:
"I am a senior manager of Materials Department and I joined an organization 25 years ago as an Engineer Trainee
and over the last 25 years I have gone through every experience in the organization. During the initial part of my career,
the job was very challenging and interesting. However, all those exciting days are gone since I do not find my joy any
more interesting because there is nothing new in my job. I am now feeling bored because I am doing a routine job.
However, Sir, I am living in the same house for over forty years, I am the son for the same parents for over forty five years,
I am the father for the same children for the past ten years and the husband for the same lady for the past twenty years!!
In these personal roles I do not feel bored. Please tell me why I am bored of the routine in the office and not in the house?"
The response from Scholar was very interesting and convincing. He asked the executive the question:
"Please tell me for whom does your Mother cook?"
The executive replied that obviously the mother cooks for others.
Then the Scholar said that the mother "Serves" others and because of this service mindedness, she is not feeling tired or bored.
But in an office, we "Work" and not "Serve". Anything we consider, as service will not make us feel bored.
That is difference between Serving and Working.
He asked the executive to consider his work as service and not merely a work!! This was a very interesting analysis!!
Whenever you put a larger context around your work and see a broader meaning for your work, you will take interest
in your work and it will make a very big difference in your internal energy.
Attitude Matters!!!
If you think you are working for the organization you will get frustrated. If you feel you are doing a service and
getting some service charges you will feel happy.
After all -doing what you like is freedom, but liking what you do is happiness!!!
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Even if I think of my work as a "service" I am still bored.
I think this "scholar" does not have much weight in what he talks about.
Happiness is winning the Lotto 649. Period.
Quote:
Originally posted by wall-E
Even if I think of my work as a "service" I am still bored.
I think this "scholar" does not have must weight in what he talks about.
Happiness is winning the Lotto 649. Period.
Correct!!
Trust me -- its possible to be bored even after winning a lottery ..... as I heard one of the recent winners (working at a coffee joint ) state that she would either continue working or open up another joint as working is for life ...
Q is - whether you like your work or not ??
Few people are lucky to have professions which they are really interested in and look forward to each day in their lives and never got bored ...... it all depends on you and the circumstances around you ... and your will to over come those circumstances ...
If you don't like what you do for work ... chances are you won't like it 5 years hence ...... Why do you wish to spend 8/16 hours or your 1/2 life doing it ....? Introspect and change ... would have been my solution ... and you will be happy with both work and family ... 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Fido.
^^ I agree. Doing a job you like is the key to happiness. But thinking of your job as service doesn't help anyone IMO.
Winning the lotto 649 means I can do nearly whatever I like, wherever I like.
You can't buy friends, but you can buy close imitations.
Quote:
Originally posted by Fido
Trust me -- its possible to be bored even after winning a lottery .....
How can I Trust you when you are Quoting someone else !!!
I won't be available to write here after winning 649 Jackpot. I hardly post anything from home.
Work is a Work is a Work. Nothing personal. Buck stops @ 5pm (sometimes @ 4/3/2)
Grass is always Greener on other side.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Mumbai Maazi Ladki ...
I don't know -- I don't feel this way ... I return back every morning and look to either solving the uncracked problem from last evening or trying to solve new ones ....... I do get tired by 5 pm but thats physically and mentally ... never bored ....
And yet there was a time when I said to myself -- ' I have done it enough , I don't want to do it anymore ' ......
Circumstances are yet another deciding factor ... You may want happiness but circumstances may decide other wise esp when job and monetary satisfaction are not aligned ....
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Fido.
