Realisations.
I am at a weird place right now in terms of work.
Working for AIESEC over the past 2 years has been great in so many ways. I have been able to work in a diverse team environment where people are united in a common purpose and working for a higher goal.
This is something that I realise is not necessarily the case in all organisations.
I guess it is very strange in this way to move to:
* An Independent, work by yourself autonomous environment
* A working evironment with people that are not necessarily motivated or connected by a higher purpose
It is very strange, and to be honest very disempowering for me personally, but empowering at the same time.
It tells me what I want and do not want in the place where I work.
I do not want the feeling that I am going to a 'job'.
I want the feeling that I am contributing to something higher and see the bigger picture of what I do
I want to work WITH people, right there slam bam thankyou mam SURROUNDED by people.... i want people to frustrate me, challenge me, engage me, entertain me, and have close friendship relations with me. I want to derive my energy and excitement from others, aswell as myself.
I want to be in a diverse environement, an environment where all ideas and people are welcomed regardless of level of title.
I want to work in a think tank - that is where people constantly challenge and seek 100% performance.
and right now, at this moment, I want to have my own organisation.
I have the ideas, I have the people who I know I can start irt with, and I have the will.....
The work I am doing now, and the environment I am in was needed for me, its like a kick in the butt...
'Mazzy, what may happen if you dedicate 40 hours of week to your personal dream....?'
I know I am ready to find out when I go back to Australia.
Working for AIESEC over the past 2 years has been great in so many ways. I have been able to work in a diverse team environment where people are united in a common purpose and working for a higher goal.
This is something that I realise is not necessarily the case in all organisations.
I guess it is very strange in this way to move to:
* An Independent, work by yourself autonomous environment
* A working evironment with people that are not necessarily motivated or connected by a higher purpose
It is very strange, and to be honest very disempowering for me personally, but empowering at the same time.
It tells me what I want and do not want in the place where I work.
I do not want the feeling that I am going to a 'job'.
I want the feeling that I am contributing to something higher and see the bigger picture of what I do
I want to work WITH people, right there slam bam thankyou mam SURROUNDED by people.... i want people to frustrate me, challenge me, engage me, entertain me, and have close friendship relations with me. I want to derive my energy and excitement from others, aswell as myself.
I want to be in a diverse environement, an environment where all ideas and people are welcomed regardless of level of title.
I want to work in a think tank - that is where people constantly challenge and seek 100% performance.
and right now, at this moment, I want to have my own organisation.
I have the ideas, I have the people who I know I can start irt with, and I have the will.....
The work I am doing now, and the environment I am in was needed for me, its like a kick in the butt...
'Mazzy, what may happen if you dedicate 40 hours of week to your personal dream....?'
I know I am ready to find out when I go back to Australia.
2 Comments:
Hey Mazzy, this is Fabio, you know...the guy you work with...intelligent, charismatic, against all odds only 23% gay, attractive (if you disagree it's because you're intimidated by my persona), supposedly arrogant, but I don't see how, quality conversationalist, proud realist at the age of 9 (or somewhere around there), frightened of aisec members, generally unmotivated by current working situation, too much knowledge of the current political situation at co-op, ENTP, co-op basher, abnormal appreciation for urine, firm believer that you care too much about work at co-op, insightful, may not always be right, but will always make people think twice, many more things can be added, including....one of your uninspired co-workers.
So why have I taken the time to write all this out? Because I spend my days at work, in my office, with tasks that I could have completed in the 8th grade. In a surrounding that makes me doubt the continued existence of the coop program. Where whims, vendettas and incoherrent choices are the daily theme, and with the knowledge that I have just wasted an entire semester. So even if your job is uninspiring, which it most definetly is, realize that you will soon leave co-op, and that least you have a point of reference to know how terrible the job is.
See you in about 9 hours. And if at this moment you're thinking "that's harsh!", my only answer is "NOOOOOOO...eehm...NOOOOO"
Goodnight :)
Thanks for the thoughts Fab!
Yeah, well if you are not motivated by what you do, make what you do MOTIVATING.
Hence my new strategy to link all work at CO-OP more directly to my company, so when I am working on Task X I can think to myself...
You are working towards your dream Mazzy.... KEEP GOING!!!
This is definately a good strategy I think, and whenever I may have a few seconds I will use it productively for my personal dream...
Feeling much better now...!
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