Reply To: A crappy job is better than no job at all….right? How low would you go?

[Andrew Garulay, RLA]

I get down from time to time because most of the work that I do is very boring or just plain sucks. Sometimes I simmer there, burt sometimes I pick myself up and tell myself to kick its ass instead of letting it kick mine. I found the Winter X Games very motivational. Between goofing on their lingo and just seeing people do things that obviously took a lot of physical and mental beating to achieve I just can’t not take something from that. “Go big or go home” is their motto, I think.

 

So for the past week plus, instead of thinking “you want me to do what?”, I’m thinking “you bet you ass I’ll get two buildable lots out of that AND not move the barn AND not require an easement around the cranberry bog road. It was still the same project, but it sure felt a lot better getting it done. Go big or go home even if it is a crappy project.

 

I regret to say that  I have also developed a much better attitude from hearing horror stories about people getting paid salary and being worked long hours, people having pay cuts, or losing their jobs. I’m lucky and I better damn well appreciate it. What was getting me down is now making me realize I have it a lot better than a lot of other people. If you can’t have the job you love, love the one your with.