One of the hardest things to do is stay motivated at work. Depending on your situation, you may be motivated by fear of your boss, love of technology, potential to advance your career, ability to enhance your knowledge of a particular subject matter, or cash. The main thing is to understand your motivations, and make the most of it.
While I talk a lot of smack about life in a little cubicle, I recognize that it does occasionally bring some joy to my life. Mostly, this comes in the form of unexpected free food! That may not sound like anything that exciting, but when you’ve been staring at a little computer screen for hours, and you’re possibly a little simple minded like myself, that’s all it takes to make it a good day.
Whether you love your job or not, the day to day activities tend to get repetitive. Same people, same responsibilities, same environment. Having some variety mixed in can go a long way to preventing burn out. Having the opportunity to go to a work conference, while always a mixed bag of tricks, is usually a welcomed change to break up the monotony.
Let’s face it, living without money is hard. Ideally, we could all just go through life being nice, and things would work out. However, after living on this planet for about two seconds, I realized that this will never happen. They say money rules the world, but that doesn’t mean it has to rule your life!
Thanksgiving is upon us, and I’ve seen a few TV shows where they were making it a point to actually give thanks for some of the things in their lives. Being totally uncreative, I’ve decided to steal that idea. The more I thought about it, even though I can talk trash about working in a cube for hours, there’s quite a bit that I can be thankful for as well.
Everyone has had one of those weeks where everything was going wrong, taking longer than expected, getting on your nerves and just destroying all of the joy in life. It seems hopeless, like there is no way for your misery to end. We’ve all been there, and we’ve all made it through, because everyone knows that no matter how miserable your week is, you’ll eventually hit Friday.
You’ve finally gotten to work after an extra rough commute, are barely sitting down, and the annoying guy in your cube farm immediately comes up to you asking questions your brain isn’t ready to handle. All you can think is “I haven’t even had my coffee yet, why is he over here. I wish I worked from home, then this would never happen”. Well, this may be shocking to hear, but “telecommuting” isn’t always that great.
The dreaded work commute, is there anything worse? Whether or not you actually like your job, commuting is rarely spoken of with kind words. Don’t stress out though, learn to make use of, and even enjoy it.
Whether you realize it or not, doing an excellent job, and moving up the food chain within your company often have no connection with each other. You would think that exceeding expectations, and always getting the job done would be enough to gain the favor of the higher ups. Unfortunately, most of the time, the [...]
You may not realize it, but your office is one giant collection of germs. Let’s face it, not everyone has the best hygiene. Other peoples germs are probably coating your office. Take control, and keep yourself healthy!