How Do You Define Hard Work?
I hear people at work say they work hard. It makes me laugh due to how easy
the hours are there. We have what is
called a “compressed work schedule.”
That is during a two week pay period you work 9 hours a day on 8 days, 8
hours on one of the Fridays and then get the other Friday off. Every Friday is very quiet even half the people are suppose to be there. The productivity is just not there.
The people who think they work hard
need to go somewhere where the grind is endless. For me that would be the Pentagon. Ten hour days were the minimum. I never understood why the Pentagon operated
that way. A lot of people there lived for work.
They almost took it as a badge of honor for working long hours. Plus, the work there was like ground hog
day. It was a constant cycle. At times, you would be given a tasker that
had to be done by tomorrow. You would
crush it to get it done, turn it in and then find out that it was OBE and new
tasker would be coming. It all revolved
around the budget cycle.
So, in my current workplace if people
worked a lot smarter we could get by with less people. But that would heresy to say. I am a proponent of “Deep Work” by Cal
Newport. He says if you do intense
periods (2-3 hours) of really concentrated work, you would be amazed at the
productivity you can have. However, he stresses
that it needs to be a quiet uninterrupted time.
Open cubicle office spaces are the opposite of that, and we have
that.
I would be hard pressed to think of a
work environment that is less productive due to the office layout.
In order to appreciate your work
place if it is as easy as the one I currently work in, you need something to
compare it with. I think everyone should
experience a fast-paced job so that they can see just how good a deal they have
here.
I have been in both and I am very
grateful.
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