After a week of working I started getting used to it; and in fact I started liking it. This is probably the trend when you start getting acquainted with the people at work and then you don’t mind helping them anymore. I experienced this while in National Service as well. Unfortunately I know the next step too well; you start getting to know people a bit too much and they are no longer that courteous to you and start making you the scapegoat for their mistakes. This next stage doesn’t set in all the time; usually if you maintain your integrity, stay as a great worker, it might never come in. For me, it set in really late during National Service. It was by a certain time when I started diverting energies back into the real world that I realised work feels crappy when it is done in camp.
So when I started out at work, I kept comparing it with the kind of life I had in camp and it becomes rather miserable. Then as life moves on, you discover that there’s something new you learn everyday and when you talk to people and learn about their lives, about their history and each individual’s purposes, you think there’s so much more to the work then what you have been dealing with and in most cases, you can actually find out. You can work on and fulfill your purpose and also that of others. You can commit yourself to a vision someone has shared with you, or you can be inspired to create your own and move ahead with it.
And soon enough, life is going to be pretty exciting for you.
