Tag: Work
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EP 219 (156/365) What makes Work enjoyable?
Work can be enjoyable but work can also be a drudgery… and the fact is that not everyone in this world is privileged to enjoy their work… Some jobs are not humanely enjoyable… So if we need to talk about what makes work enjoyable then we can only do it by acknowledging our privilege to…
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EP 218 (155/365) What is Commitment in a job
How committed are we in our job? How committed should we be? How can we ensure we are committed.. What do you think employers or our team mates or manager thinks of commitment… Are our managers more committed than us because they have a fancier title or higher salaries and have more power in the…
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EP 217 (154/365) Why do you want this job?
You are going for an interview and they ask you why do you want this job? What will your answer be… I am sure we all will have our own answers…. And based on our situation our real answer can be different… I say real answer because not everyone will give the real answer.. they…
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112/365 Decisions that might have cost me my career
There are decisions we take in our life that can cost us either immediately or in the long run. I have experimented a lot with my career and also made decisions and if I look back it has had its impact. I think it would be nice to reflect back. There is a price…. The…
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111/365 When I failed to blend Passion & Work
Find a way to get paid for your passion and you will not work for another day. That is what I have heard over and over again. You must have too… And magically your Passion and work becomes one and the same. How beautiful is that. Definitely worth trying. I have tried and failed.. not…
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110/365 Why do we work?
Work is the biggest part of our waking hour. For some folks the sleeping hour is so minuscule that work is all they have in their life. So Why do we work? Next few days I want to share with you some personal thoughts about work every day. I sometimes feel an alternative to work…
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67/365 Negative people on day 1 at work
I don’t know if you have felt this way. Your enthusiasm of being at work on the first day is burst like a balloon by people who tell you have bad things are…. what kind of a mess you have gotten into… OK may be not day 1 but as you go by the week.…
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64/365 What should my relationship to work be
The question is becoming even more relevant with time. May be it is because there is choice. In olden days the choice was non existent for a majority of people. The elite always had choices. That is why we see that when the masses toiled in fields and factories… the elites dabbled on poetry and…
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62/365 Keeping Passion Separate From Work
Before I start I want to tell you all that, this is what I think now and I might change my thought down the line when I understand life better. Like many others I also grew up hearing that ‘follow your passion’. If you start getting paid for what you like to do then you…
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43/365 Not hours worked; but Value Delivered
This pandemic time there has been a lot of discussions on work hours and work days and working from home and so on. The conversation will continue as people hash out various aspects of the future of work. In a recent call that I did with a group of college students over zoom I told…
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