Someone said that, “being happy at work depends upon how you’ve successfully finished all the stuffs that your managers, and supervisors told you to do”. Others said that “It is how busy you are for the whole day even if it is not the so called JOB DESCRIPTION of yours”. And also the mindset of some employees that said, “we are happy in our work because we have received our salary with the highest compensation, and we are satisfied with it even if we are not doing our job well”, in short, they just timed in, and out of the office and have not done anything. You know what I mean.
The sad part is that most of the workers do not know where to get the real happiness and continuously in love in what they do. Even if it is a compilation of work in the office or your responsibility inside your house or anywhere you go,” work” will go with you. The funny thing to be considered is that most of the people around the globe are not educated regarding how to value their work, that’s why they mess up, and end up submitting their resignation to their bosses.
I am guilty that I was once like them. I worked with the travel agency for almost 6 months that’s was my first job after I graduated in college. And I was trying to convince my self that I would soon love what I am doing. At first, I am happy to learn new things, but as months pass by, the fire in my heart faints and the job gets easier each day, until I have discovered that it is just a routine and I am no longer challenge to do extraordinary things. I prayed for two months if I would stay. The company won’t let me go after I have decided to submit my resignation. But they can’t persuade me to stay, my desire is to go out and spread my wings to a specific work that I want to engage in. My dream is simple; I want to work in an IT company, to use what degree I have graduated in. I want to be “HAPPY IN WHAT I DO” because it is my passion. Then it happens. I am now in an IT company. I really do maximized what I’ve learned in the academe and excited to excel each day.
The secret of being happy at work is that the “PASSION” itself; you simply LOVE what you are doing. Not because you are motivated with what amount of wages you would receive in 15days, or you are pushed to do what your boss told you so, but the main reason is that you want to feel the fulfillment in a day and to feed up the confidence of your inner man because you have done your best. If you love what you do, you wouldn’t even notice that you almost exceed the 8hours of your working time for the whole day, and for you it is not enough because you want to finish everything that was assigned to you by your supervisor or manager. If you do your work with all your heart everything would be easy because you are happy inside. The benefit would be, being cheerful at work by then is normal, then stressful nights and hours is no longer your concern, and you didn’t even think that you are burnout with what you are doing. Next is that waking up early in the morning is not a burden to you and you would see your self that you are thankful for another day of learning experience, and lastly, the responsibility that was assigned to you by your boss would be done in a very excellent procedure. Be happy. God is watching over you. Your work is from Him, and you would feel that HAPPINESS if you are in the center of His will. Let me finish it with this words that I learned from Mr. Vivek Wadhwa
“You may feel as if you are kidding yourself when you try hard to focus on what is “good” about your job, but you are indulging in exactly the same mental gymnastics when you are preoccupied with what you “dislike” about it. So you may as well invest your emotional energy in ways that make you feel and function better”.
