You can’t always get what you want
Am I defective because I think it’s more important to be employed than to be content with your work environment?
I have a few rules I work by and honestly, I’m not sure they’re working for me. First rule, I don’t mess with anyone’s money. I’m not paid to be anyone’s friend. We don’t have to like each other, we just have to work together. Second, I don’t go above or beyond anyone I’m having an issue with, I work it out with the person directly. Third, I trust people to be ethically moral and respect hard work.
So, that being stated, I don’t have to be happy or fulfilled by my work environment, I just have to be paid. My job, while important, while my career, longevity and security, is not in any way my life. My work affords me my life and fulfilment. My job affords me the opportunities to live my life fully and take care of the ones I love. My self worth, while tied to being employed is not tied to my job in what my peers perceive and how they feel about how hard I work. It’s ridiculous to be told that you work to hard, do to much and that you need to lay off because your effort can’t be replicated. Outlandishly told that no one in the office can keep up the pace or the effort, so let a few or a lot of thing slide. All that being stated, I would go back, happiness not required, I’ll take cash.
