Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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The reason I asked this, is because I feel it is very important to enjoy or at least derive something wholesome from what people in all honesty spend most of their lives doing other than sleeping other than the wage at the end of the day. A wage that we use to pay what bills we have and if anything is left, try to live life of our choosing which is not work, the freedom we all say we are working for.
I have had but one job I totally enjoyed, a job where I could not wait to get there in the morning and loathe to leave there in the evening. A job where I was left alone to get on with it, knowing there was a goal I had to meet, but in my thinking, exceed and keep on exceeding that exceed as a challenge to myself, which according to plan and my way of working reaped massive dividends for the company I worked for, as I believed in the company and my role in it, Which was basically a large cog in a small machine, I was the brain on the mechanical side of things, I was for the first time in my life valued for me and my self taught expertise.
If left alone, I work to a high standard, my standard, not anyone elses, and I suceed in whatever I take interest in, as I need constant puzzles to stimulate my interest, the tool/plant/machine repair provided that stimulus I needed, as there was always something new to get around, a new puzzle to solve.
But as I was good at my job, made massive unexpected profit for the company I worked for and created a loyal customer base that included all the major contractors in the area, whom I knew on first name terms, I was a severe pain in the ass for my employer, the aspergers before I knew what it was about, I did not recognise my boss as my boss and either ignored him at every occaision or did what he demanded to the letter, which he came to understand was not worth the effort of being demanding, as he would come to regret it evert time.
The job I had fulfilled me in every work way possible, for I was in my work permitted to be myself, which in my experience of work was very unusual, but very welcome, I loved that job, it was the best I ever had, and for a person who suffers confidence issues, I have never before been so confident in my abilities, so much so, there were many attempts to head hunt me for other companies, something I was flattered by, but did not move due to a sense of loyalty many do not understand, my employment in many ways was therapy for the ills I felt and knew about.
After seven years with that company an issue arose that could not be resolved, so due to stubboness on both sides, I jumped ship, from a frying pan into a fire, nine months later the company I used to work for folded, which was very sad, but the custom I had created, found where I had moved to and there expected the same, but I could not do the level of service I used to do, for I had joined a corporate outfit which watched me closely and hindered the way I worked, yet demanded what they had heard about. I had gone from a large cog in a small machine to it seemed an idler wheel in a large machine, for I was working as hard as I ever used to, but seemingly achieving nothing, because the corporate interests kept the target on a moving track uphill. I was aware, I was being driven beyond my abilities, or at least to an area where the ability was minimal and robotic, much like a machine that if ever one was created, would require no critical eyes over shoulders to get a job done
Work as I see it now, is employees are under suspicion by employers, it seems we are all treated as though we have no desire to put the work in to receive a wage, so we need more supervision and that itself fortifies the thought that we are all under suspicion, work has become an unfriendly chore that has to be done, that chore taking the majority of our living awake lives, why does it have to be so unhappy, are we born to live as slaves to others.
Myself, I can only now work for myself, as I have only myself to blame if things do not go according to plan, unless it is I can find an old style company like I used to work in, free from corporate ideas.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha
Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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