When Work Sucks!

Written by Norma on 06 July 2010

Alvin Toeffler and many others have written about new family structures and how the traditional nucleus families are no longer as true these days. Gone are the days of Mum and Dad, two children and a dog named Fido to complete the picture of domestic bliss. The things that pull us apart fundamentally are forces beyond our control. We can blame globalisation which has altered much how people travel and through travel enlarge their world view and options in life. The pressures at work are also different from the past.

Technology brings with it all the great flexibility of working anywhere. Just today, a friend of mine emailed me to say he can’t live without his Blackberry and that he was seated by the pool having his lunch, emailing me. All this is great, but have you noticed that we never stop working these days! Oh dear!

With art, social enterprises for youths, running around in the region doing project work in the oil and gas industry and packing a schedule writing books for my dear publisher, I seem to be busy all the time. I love my publisher the best of course, but without my other work and my financial freedom, Gorgeous Sexy and Rich would have never been written. Writing is an art form. I had never realised it as much as when I enrolled for an online course at Oxford University. And I am in love with the art of writing.

So yes … I work.

But I love my work.

Rather than focus on what to do when work is no longer fun, we should ask how to make work fun.

Watch this space as I begin to write the The Gorgeous Sexy & Rich Rules of Work!

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