Emails flying in, office phone ringing, cell phone ringing and some annoying coworker's voice quacking next to you. Does that sound familiar?
The display only shows temperature in Celsius, "we need Fahrenheit or we can't authorize this!" My boss shouted "Oh for god's sake, you are a freaking engineer, use your iPhone or do the math, multiple by 9/5 and plus 32."
The last thing you want to solve is how to convert temperatures and some dumbass demands a 'specialized tool'. And that's also the last thing you would want to tell your boss that you have an engineering degree but you can't do math.
Well that was Thursday, more problems arise and no one gets a day off today. I swear I woke up this morning expecting to have brunch at a local cafe.
What I learned is there are always problems, some belong to you and some belong to others and some don't even matter. Tip: never think all problems belong to you.
If you let work stress you out, I am sorry to tell you that you lost to your job, you didn't succeed. If you solve what you can and know how to set things aside, and know how to keep a positive attitude even during overtime and no matter how tedious the problem is, you have won the battle and you smile when you leave that door because you are about to enjoy life.
How tedious can what your boss ask you to do is? Stapling papers? Plan a meeting to talk about how to run another meeting more efficiently? Reviewing a document that you know an updated version is coming out tomorrow? Or someone can't do simple elementary school math and you have to figure out how to tell him he is so stupid in an educated way.
Whatever, it doesn't matter, what matters is weekend is here and my sports car is waiting for me outside!
Don't let your work rule over you, if you learned something today to help your career, congratulations, you succeeded, now take that paycheck and enjoy your life!
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