We have
different view regarding work, my mom and I. While my mom thinks of how much I am
going to be paid on my job and how I should stick to the work hours, I choose
to find comfort in my job. I mean, since I will be doing it for the rest of my
life (probably) so comfort is the most important thing, right? And when we talk
about comfort, I mean it’s about the difficulty of the job, the team I’m in, and
the boss I have to face everyday. As long as the job is not that hard to do on
everyday basis, the team is solid and fun to be with everyday, and the boss is
bearable, that’s the kind of workplace I want in. With an additional of a
reasonable work hours, I think it’s a good enough workplace for me. But my mom
thinks differently. In her mind, higher education means higher pay on the job. She
thought higher education means better life. While I think that it is not wrong,
I also think that it’s not exactly right. At some point, I do have a better job
than my dad. At least, I don’t have to work on shift, I only work for 8 hours a
day, my work is not a labor that requires a lot of muscles and all that heavy
things. I do come home later than it should have, but we laugh and joke around
during the overtime. I guess that’s one of the things that make us forget that
it’s way past the end of working hours, because we’re having so much fun that
we’re a bit reluctant to go home.
Maybe that’s
because I never think that money is my first priority in life. As long as I have
enough, that’s fine. Besides, I didn’t work full hours for 8 hours. There are a
lot of laughs and jokes along the way, and that’s the most important things
that I’m looking forward to when I get ready to work. I rather have a fun work
environment who pay me for a bit less than having a big pay but in a stressful
environment (for me). That’s all I see from people around me. They might pay
bigger and have Saturday off, but they work on target and deadlines, they
require thinking so hard or working so fast for quite a long time. So different
from my current job. While it’s sometimes stressful (which work isn’t?) but at
least I got to share it with the teammates. It got stressful for a few hours, but
it never drags on for a long time, and we can always ask for help from everyone
including our boss if we hit a dead end. They won’t judge you. And when you got
home, you don’t have to bring your work along, you don’t have to keep working
on your day off.
That’s quite
different from a few friends of mine. Some are having a shorter work hours, but
have to bring the work home. Some may not have to bring the work home, but have
to have a full concentration and be serious during work hours, or the target
won’t be achieved. Some have the option to bring the work home or doing it on
the office, but still need to brainstorm a fresh and untouched idea in order to
go on sometimes. I mean, what if we’re in a bad mood but the boss wants us to
have a good idea? I won’t have any if I’m having a bad mood. And that tends to
happen a lot in my time of working, no matter how fun the work environment is. Since
I’m mostly an introvert type, I have a bigger tendency to be alone than
surrounded by people all day while at the same time have a need to interact
with other people to get rid of the boredom. So working alone will get me mad
and working together will make me in a lot of bad mood.
Then again, I’m not exactly the kind who’s
easily get annoyed. Only very special kinds are able to tick me off. I really
hate it when people ask me to do something so easy that they can do it by
themselves, but too lazy to do it so they ask me instead. I mean, I’m all about
helping people, but it irks me when they take advantage of that and ask for my
help for every single thing that they do. As if I don’t have a job of my own. I
also really, really hate people who ask such a trifling question, especially so
early in the morning. There are questions that only I can answer, and there are
questions that everyone should have known the answer because it’s basic. I will
gladly answer if it’s a question that only I have the answer. But if it’s basic
question, I think you should have paid attention the first few days that I or
other people taught you. Such a wasting time when someone ask something that
lack of quality on the question. There are also questions that only the
expertise can answer, but still ask for my answer. Do you think I’m Google that
has all the answer you’re looking for? If you’re asking about an invoice, ask
accounting or the supplier who made the invoice. If you’re asking about
delivery note, ask the one who made the delivery note or the warehouse who
received them, why ask me, the one who only make the PO, who doesn’t have a
clue when the goods arrived unless they encountered a problem at THAT time? That
kind of questions really getting on my nerves sometimes. And the worst thing is
when someone ask the same question or the related topic again and again in the
span of less than 30 minutes. Why don’t you think of it all first and fire all
the questions in one shot? I have a job too, you know. And your interrupting is
messing my concentration in my job at hand.
That’s when I realized, “A good teammate is not necessarily a good
friend, and vice versa”. That’s what I learned from my experience of
working for 2 years. What experience you got from the years of you working?
