My wife is on vacation. This means that today and tomorrow are vacation days for her. This means that she is only spending about six hours dialed into various systems to fix problems and get things moving, rather than two whole days of it.
I really, really need to be sensitive to this, because it is very easy for me to forget just what a royally demanding pain having to work can be. No matter how teary eyed and choked up Bill Gates got on his last day on the job, most folks aren't that attached to what they do for a living. They have no reason to be. They're lucky if they simply like it, sometimes.
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I totally understand her situation. I supposed to be on vacation this week too. But I've checked e-mail several times because I just can't quit worrying about a few things.
You're right...they're lucky if they simply like it sometimes.
For the longest time, I thought that it was *possible* for people to genuinely like what they did. The fact that most of the people I knew tolerated it, rather than liked it, made me think that they were simply not approaching it correctly, or perhaps that the environment in which they worked wasn't set up to allow optimum amounts of employee buy-in.
I still think that, but at a seriously reduced intensity. I believe most of that Koolaid has left my system.
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