Monday Motivator
I’m rejuvenated… it’s a Monday morning and I’m psyched. Why am I psyched? Well, I guess I’m experiencing how much doing a job you love instead of a job you like can improve the quality of your days. I had worked in banking. I hope to write a novel about it one day. Banking wasn’t the worst career that you could pick. In fact, I worked in the best individual bank branch in West Virginia. I loved the people I worked with.
But, while I do possess a somewhat analytical mind, number crunching is not primarily my idea of a fun time. Dealing with customers who feel like they’ve been robbed, even less so. One day I’d like to do a blog post about that. We’ll see. But I did my best at that job, and I feel like I did well.
Anyway, now, I work for BelieversPress (www.believerspress.com), and I have to tell you, it’s a joy. It’s challenging, it’s rewarding, it’s all the things you hope a job will be. And it’s all motivated by a sincere desire to serve the customer best… not the best that we can, but best.
That’s motivating. Doing my job and enjoying it at the same time… that’s something I can wake up on Monday for!
I won’t even mention that preseason hockey starts tonight. Shoot, I just mentioned it, didn’t I?
It gives me joy to know that your job gives you joy!
For some reason it’s having some kind of opposite effect where I now realize how I much I don’t enjoy my job…
Happy Monday!
Get that.
Haha, Joel, sorry for being a downer by proxy. That’d be a good name for an emo/punk band, by the way. Anyway… as one of my brothers told me, sometimes you put in your time and provide for your family knowing that at some point your time will come.