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Tendency of today businesses is
to torture us with increased workload and demands for efficiency. The
newest and the worst trick (so far luckily only in diving industry)
is to force us to survive three months of holiday (preferably in snow
covered European mountains) and nine months of scuba diving vacation
(in colorful fish infested tropical waters – as for instance in
Bali). Year after year.
Who can endure this?
a) true workaholics powered by chili
b) people who proved they can work 26/8
c) me
d) you
When listening to most of the people I encounter either in Bali or in Europe, common sentiment seems to be: “You divers do what you love to do, and contrary to us, regular, upright citizens, you not only get your diving for free, you even get lavishly paid for enjoying dive after dive!”
Being what I am I can not stop myself asking them why the heck they have chosen gratifying job of copying and pasting numbers (or words) from left column to the right one. Day after day. A streak of masochism? They have to pay for the sins from previous life?
More or less anything we do in our lives – for pleasure, for earning survival funds – we do as a result of our decision(s).
Usually nobody is forcing us into accepting miserable lifestyle at a gunpoint.
It comes down to your calling.
Most people find something other people are willing to pay for, to be their true passion. I'm not talking just about the artists who love to create, same goes also for a mechanic who wants to understand every gadget he can lay his hands on, an economist who is able to see poetry in the balance sheet, a lawyer who discovered he can use the paragraph jungle to right some wrongs, a gardener whose reward is creation of a piece of heaven for a customer …
Serious problem can occur if your soul is craving for landscaping but you have masters in law sciences. And if society succeeds to persuade you that your face on a totem pole of achievements will drop for a few positions if you will follow your call – well, then you are doomed.
Better to remain well regarded and bitter lawyer than a great and happy landscaper.
Our choices are in most cases wide open.
We can opt to follow our dreams. Or we can opt to follow our nightmares. Or listen to family, friends, society what would be the best for us.
Who can endure this?
a) true workaholics powered by chili
b) people who proved they can work 26/8
c) me
d) you
When listening to most of the people I encounter either in Bali or in Europe, common sentiment seems to be: “You divers do what you love to do, and contrary to us, regular, upright citizens, you not only get your diving for free, you even get lavishly paid for enjoying dive after dive!”
Being what I am I can not stop myself asking them why the heck they have chosen gratifying job of copying and pasting numbers (or words) from left column to the right one. Day after day. A streak of masochism? They have to pay for the sins from previous life?
More or less anything we do in our lives – for pleasure, for earning survival funds – we do as a result of our decision(s).
Usually nobody is forcing us into accepting miserable lifestyle at a gunpoint.
It comes down to your calling.
Most people find something other people are willing to pay for, to be their true passion. I'm not talking just about the artists who love to create, same goes also for a mechanic who wants to understand every gadget he can lay his hands on, an economist who is able to see poetry in the balance sheet, a lawyer who discovered he can use the paragraph jungle to right some wrongs, a gardener whose reward is creation of a piece of heaven for a customer …
Serious problem can occur if your soul is craving for landscaping but you have masters in law sciences. And if society succeeds to persuade you that your face on a totem pole of achievements will drop for a few positions if you will follow your call – well, then you are doomed.
Better to remain well regarded and bitter lawyer than a great and happy landscaper.
Our choices are in most cases wide open.
We can opt to follow our dreams. Or we can opt to follow our nightmares. Or listen to family, friends, society what would be the best for us.
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