When I was younger I was amazed that there were people who wanted to work in an office building filled with cubicles. Later in my adolescence I realized that most of those people hated that they were there, but I still couldn't understand how someone would allow themselves to get stuck in a hopeless job like that. I reasoned that they must be either boring people or so focused on promotion potential that they would go though anything. I made a promise to myself that I would never become one of those people.
Now, however I am starting to understand. Those people didn't all go into those jobs with intentions to say. They just got stuck there one day at a time. I can imagine there reasons for taking the job in the first place. It was probably something like: the money is good and I need to get back on my feet, I am just going to do this until I start my real career, or I am not really one of these people, I just work here. As the days, weeks, months, and even years drag on people get comfortable with the benefits and lifestyle that the job provides. They start to build friendships and can easily preform their given task. Before you know it this menially job that you never intended to keep becomes part of who you are.
Though this is not where my job is headed and not what my job is like, I was terrified by the prospect of this ever happening. I don't ever want to just do a job because I need to, though there are times in my life when that could be necessary. I will not become comfortable, I will seek jobs and opportunities because I am passionate about it and it helps humanity. I refuse to become stuck one day at a time.
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