Another Set of Eyes

Turning Around a Proverb

It has long been said: "Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work another day in your life." It's a great idea, but not always feasible. I suggest an alternative: "Find something to do where you spend as little time as possible doing what you hate!"

Doing things you hate is one of the most tiring activities possible. Naturally, most jobs will require some of it -- and sometimes it's absolutely necessary to the task. Often, though, the hateful things that one must do have merely accumulated through entropy -- a little bit at a time -- and become sufficiently ingrained in the culture that they're hard to eliminate, at least when you're looking from the inside.

Being prepared to ferret out such things -- and breaking bad cycles within a local culture -- can lead to cheaply implementable fixes. And big gains.

posted by Another Set of Eyes @ 8:21 AM