We’re a culture that’s highly attuned to what’s beautiful and moving about love; we know its high points and celebrate its ecstasies in films and songs. By comparison, work is the dull, tedious bit – the thing we have to do to pay the bills. And yet what’s striking is how often work, despite its lack of glamour, in fact turns out to be the easier, more enjoyable and ultimately more humane part of life. There are a number of reasons:
FIRST : You have to be professional
Work demands that all who walk through the office door must behave ‘professionally’. And what that essentially means is that situations where you’re deep inside tempted to explode, insult, curse and weep require you to handle yourself with stoic calm and reserve.
At work, you…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2016 - Issue 44