Am I the only one who saw Office Space and got the joke? Every week, at my job, which thousands of people in this town would kill for, I have to sit through endless repetitions of the whole pissy, pouty "crap, I hate Mondays" routine...and then the equally obnoxious "Happy Friday" salutations at the end of the week. And I have no idea how to respond without making myself sick.
Here's why I find this sheep-like adherence to "I hate Mondays" and "thank god it's Friday" mentality...if you dislike your job so much that you only derive joy from leaving at the end of the week and must verbally piss and moan at the beginning, would you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go do something else so those of us who ARE enjoying our jobs and are grateful to have them can be in that space without having to listen to the rest of you whine? It would really serve the greater good on every level; you'd be happier and stop wasting your life (which you must be if you really derive no joy at all from coming to work), and the happy folks at work would be even happier to have kindred spirits around who enjoy what they do.
Now, this isn't to say that I'm all about work and career, far from it. I'd be equally thrilled to have the means to stay home, be prosperous without a "day job" (or a night job for that matter) and just spend my days being my faery self and being free. I was blessed to have the chance to do that for a while in my life when I stopped working for 9 months...it was heaven! I was never bored and never missed working. Every day there was something for my mind to play with, explore and entertain. Boredom is something I'll never understand either...with all there is to know, experience and learn, how can one ever be bored?! But I digress.
Perhaps I've been unusually blessed, but even the more mundane and boring gigs I've had were pretty cushy and generally included people of good humor and character so I didn't feel it was a prison term coming in, especially now. My boss and I laugh all day and he fully shares my philosophy on this, we've discussed it. He loves his job with a passion but also has a balanced, full life outside of this so he doesn't take it too seriously or feel it's some horrible term to "get through" til the weekend comes around. And while my life's work certainly isn't to be a development assistant, I'm so happy in this job. It's the perfect place right now, and with tens of thousands of people laid off in my industry this year so far, on the same lot even, it's a HUGE blessing just to be gainfully employed right now. Americans are so whiney about work, it boggles the mind sometimes. I think a reminder of the fact that the majority of the world's population lives on less than $2 (US) per day and many of them work in sweatshops in conditions we can't even comprehend is in order.
Hello people! We ARE living the cushiest, easiest, most lavish lives here, even those of us (like me) who are paycheck to paycheck. Sitting on my ass, answering phones, printing scripts, scheduling (this is what most of my whiney coworkers do as well, with varying titles) is not hard work, and I'm well paid for it, even if it doesn't leave much leftover.
So my point is...ENOUGH with the whole "Monday blues" bullshit and the "yipeee it's Friday" nonsense! If you are buying into that, you are officially on the treadmill, head down, shuffling along like a compliant little sheep. You're living the "I would be happier if only..." illusion. If you think that being super wealthy, not working, living i some mansion or on some tropical island would be the key to going from whiney to happy, you're an idiot...because wherever you go, there you are.
But if you can be happy, joyful, laughing all the time even at your horrible job (gasp)...now you're really on to something. If Monday can be as exciting and joyful for you as Friday just because, you're awake and living your life in total freedom and presence. You've unplugged from the Matrix and found the secret to happiness in life.
If that's just not possible or even fathomable for you, at the very least shut the hell up about it and stop assuming that everyone around you shares in your veal-like misery. We don't.
Gratitude is a great place to be. Check it out. Visit. Dip your toe in the waters from time to time, and even Mondays can be a fucking blast.
just an idea.
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