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Unlike some employers, mine has given me enough time to settle
down but there is only one thing that is keeping me in place. Hope that
tomorrow will not be the same like yesterday. Hope that good tidings lay ahead
that will come to my advantage. Hope that the hope of holding on should keep on
burning with zeal even if pressure is too much. The bottom line is that amid
all these, the end result will be more of a laughter.
Virtually,
to this point, there is no single role as an employee that is free of pressure.
I did chat with one of the sentries at work and he said it was featuring
immensely in his day to day endeavours but he remains upbeat even though his
main duty is to ensure the premises is under tight surveillance free from
ambush by men and women of ill character.
Hitherto,
I thought that pressure was tied only to my current job. I was forgetting that
there is a sole proprietor who is antsy somewhere out there about the fact that
he needs to keep the business running and customers streaming in through
versatility, creativity and picking up even when the shards of hope are like an
oasis in the desert.
The bottom line is even if you love your work, even if you are
indifferent about what you do, if you allow contentment, you will not be
feeling the pressure that boils. Meeting targets is not an end to itself, there
is something more than that, that drives the human in us to perform. Some
people easily meet targets in the workplace but they are not motivated and zealous.
They know they have variables to take care at the end of the day, once they
have accomplished that which is required of them, they silently feel some form
of inadequacy and dejected. They feel used and unappreciated. That’s why they
start being rebellious. Yet none notices this. What is worse is when they have
no avenue of transcending their status which has not changed a decade down the
line because someone feels they should not move to the next stage because of
the vital role they play in aiding the business get business.
So many of us are tied in the wrong jobs but the fear of the other world
of unemployment make us stick like glue around hoping that if we accrue the necessary experience
and have the academic papers to the job we want we will get satisfaction. Wrong! The
truth is, a new role does not mean satisfaction, a new role will have its
inhibitions and monotony just like the former role. What makes it different is
not even the love of it, just a little bit of progress can make one feel like there
is something to achieve.
A while ago, a former colleague once told me a fact about some of
the people we work with and I underestimated his jibe. Coming to think of it
now, I have realized that there is some truth in what he was saying. Most of us
do not have those clothes that we can say are admirable. Well, if you meet
someone for the first time, the way he or she is adorned speaks volume if you
have not heard him utter words that may also be used to gauge his intellectual
capacity.
Many of my colleagues are in a school like uniform. And the sheen
in the attires does not inspire at all. The old fashioned corporate textures
that is reflected in our sense of self. Few look presentable in tailored and
fitted clothes that do not expose but add towards making one look glamorous. This
inadequacy is not only limited to the not so fashion conscious men in the
house, but it is also reflected in ladies and you feel like ‘umechoka’ because
we like to associate with people in stylish dress codes. Guess all this has to
do with confidence and lack of peer pressure to look good. Someone should look
into this because successful people show it first in their attire.
The field of sales is one that is full of jealousy and
selfishness. A performing sales guy will never want to tell you the trick of
making it in any way. There are times when I have asked for help from those I
admire on how to go about the business but the result has not been appealing.
All the possible prospects you try to engage suddenly developed cold feet
because they have this fear that you may enter their market and turn the
tables, which may also not be true. Well, as opposed to school where if you go
to someone for help, they do it willingly, in this field of sales, it is
different.
Those was assigned to help me out when things were not moving gave
empty promises as to why they would not help me out in the quest for making my
debut. They remained taciturn when you approach them to be of aid. So, what’s
next. Even the manager somehow could not figure out how to do it. It’s that bad
when a team cannot be able to deliver. Aint it this acts of selfishness that
make us unprogressive?
Looking at the bigger picture, I can be able to piece up this
jinx. Rarely do we eat lunch as people working for a reputable institution.
Most of us become broke even before the end of the first week of payday. Yet we
survive. The number of shylocks who are on our case is just outstanding. Most
live beyond their means, and they rarely can account for their income even
though some have earned enough in the previous years so much so that if you were
witty, you would only have your day job as a supplement to the other income
generating activities if you were sane enough to have one.
That I skive lunch does not mean I am doing so out of want, it is
because circumstances have pushed me not to have it. And it has also
contributed heavily in my anorexia towards eating super. I survive mostly on
fruits and maybe tea. Eating ugali is just to heavy for me. Why? After spending
the day looking for work while at work, I barely have the strength to consume
stuff like that, talk of being tired. Incidentally, I am employed but must look
for work to be at work. If I don’t look for that work, I am ineligible and am
taking the business at a loss even though the four-digit retainer makes me look
vaulted. Again, juggling studies after work especially CFA thing makes it even
tough but all in all, I have got used to the tough conditions anyway.
As for those who eat lunch which is a luxury ever since I became
an employee, my bet is that you are doing well. If I were to incorporate that
meal in my budget, trust you me, I would barely make it to work in the fourth
or third week of the month. Yet, I still want to date, look chic, and be seem
that I work as opposed to being idle.
Hasta La Vista Baby
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