New Year and the New Job
I was just thinking this morning how this weekend is the last work holiday until Memorial Day. That’s five whole long winter months of nothing but work with no days off! Yikes! Why are American holidays set up like this anyway?
Things were pretty quiet at my office during the week prior and following Christmas. There was, to be honest, a bit of sketchy stuff, as we were not paid through the payroll direct-deposit system. I didn’t like the sound of that, but the check went through. I’ve worked at enough small companies to know when cash flow is in trouble. I think this will be resolved after the New Year, as more investor money comes in, but it still makes for a dicey situation. When you live like this, you never know if the job will last another week or month.
Because of this, I am pushing ahead with my last few classes in my master’s program. I’ve decided to take two this upcoming semester, even though it will be hard with a full time job. One class is mostly online, so I hope I can pull through the amount of work. I want to get that sheepskin in my hot little hand, should I become out of work again. I hope the degree will eventually lead me to a better place. IF there actually exists such a thing as a better work place anymore.
I wonder about that sometimes. We all know that work is called “work” for a reason. It’s not supposed to be fun or easy because we’d all rather be at home, right? I generally like what I do, but it just seems as though you can never really DO what it is you were hired to do without interference and generally being fucked-with by somebody. I hear so many people in so many different professions say the same thing, whether they work in retail, carry mail, or design dams.
Maybe this is warranted at some places. I’ve worked in a factory, where a greater oversight of employees was needed. Sure. But it seems you can never escape the “Lumbergs” of the workplace no matter what you do. Even high-level professionals, doctors, lawyers and scientists feel the pinch and complain about the management or the system.
When was the last time you had someone honestly tell you they LOVED their job? I mean really LOVED it in that all-engrossing kind of way, where they would still probably keep doing some variation of it even if they weren’t getting paid. If you are one of the workers like please do tell us why and how.
