I may have to start a petition to reduce Wednesdays to one per month.
If I’m doing #onelinerwednesday – One Wednesday a week may be too many to keep up with.
This post is a member of the 1%. 1% of it is not true.
Happy worker.
I was never a happy worker. I was one of those who didn’t know what to do with themselves.
I had no plan.
I stumbled into an office job, standing in wet concrete on my way into the interview.
I got the job. Nobody else applied.
On that day I can claim I was the best candidate.
It was not a sure run thing.
I noticed that many who were ‘doing the job’ around me spent a lot of time not doing it.
A lot of time was spent talking, I didn’t really like talking -( here’s my system for never doing it. )
Okay,I thought. If that’s the game. I’ll do that.
I became the best at not doing my job. I became the best at being lazy.
In fact, I didn’t do that job so successfully it was 12 years before they found out I wasn’t doing it at all.
The last 18 months I wasn’t even there.
I used to say a “Happy worker is a hard worker” a lot at the time.
Lazy
A comment about how to treat your staff,essentially. A worker may be more productive if they are happy at work.
I was happy enough as I was hardly ever there. I took being ‘on site’ to an art form.
There is a Bill Gates quote
“I will always employ a lazy man as they will always find an easy way to do it”
It would so easy for me to get a job working for Bill.
I could call him up and explain how lazy I am. I would be employed on the spot.
Then I thought. It’s a trick.
A truly lazy person would wait for Bill Gates to call them first.
Hard worker
I was never a hard worker until I lost that job and stumbled into an online job.
One day I got lucky. The business exploded overnight, as a result of a rule change made by someone else. I spotted an opportunity first.
This was my chance. I took it.
I became a hard worker and a happy worker,working 12 hour days.
Every day. For years I rarely saw the light of day.
If I answered the door, I would look up at the sky and into the distance, thinking “Wow. This is real.”
I would then go back inside and work some more.
The working for myself job is almost at an end now. I’m going to be fine.
I got lazy, I got lucky – I got busy.
I knew it and worked until I dropped and,as I knew, other people would copy what I was doing.
Slowly the opportunity closed, I got tired, I got older.
Others made more money than me. They had more money to start with. I was bankrupt. I had nothing.
I also know the value of a simple life and how much is enough.
I go out now and look at the sky. I feel the wind on my face and see it play patterns in the long grass and think “Wow”.”
So now I’m doing a bit of blogging. Figuring out if there is actually a ‘name’ for what it is that I produce.
If Bill Gates calls me,maybe I will answer.
Thanks for letting me participate in one liner Wednesday.
The 1% that is not true is the bit about Bill Gates.
Let me know if Bill gives you his email address; I’m far too lazy to look it up for myself ;O) x
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I’m not falling for that old trick – opening email guarantees he won’t employ me!
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Chuckles :O) x
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“I go out now and look at the sky. I feel the wind on my face and see it play patterns in the long grass and think “Wow”.”
This part made me say wow.
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Double wow 🙂 think I put one of these links in the wrong place 🙂
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I think your strategy is brilliant. You should run one of those self help seminars, make millions.
As soon as you figure out how to do it remotely.
From your couch.
While you’re sleeping.
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I would take the money , anyone who showed up would instantly fail. I am taking your ideas to heart 🙂
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Happy to help. We’d make a good team….
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Bill gates is missing out big time
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Oh so that’s your story eh? Well, I’m dammed if it isn’t brilliant 😀
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You sound like me talking to myself 🙂
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Nice riches to rags to riches back to rags story. Seeing the sky everyday with a full belly is the best of both worlds.
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Yes, it’s my story almost exactly.
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Can we reduce Mondays to one per month instead? Then we can all be lazy. 😉
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Perfect 🙂 The whole weekly thing never worked, we need to start the whole thing over. It’s a mess. I’ll tell Bill when he calls 🙂
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Excellent. He can put his lazy workers on it right away. There has to be a way to streamline changing all the calendars on Microsoft products, right?
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Bill give me a ring, it’s all going in the bin
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Ugh.
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Enjoyed reading. Happy worker – that’s an oxymoron. If you are happy working, then that is not work but fun.
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That’s the beauty of language, ambiguity,context meaning,oxymoronically may mean it can’t mean what it means or it may have both meanings
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I don’t believe you. In fact, I don’t believe that you are you at all. 1% of me believes you ARE Bill Gates but it was a split vote. I’ve half a mind to accept that!
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