Dreams, Jobs and Workplace Re-Engineering
Jobs surround us from the day we are born until the day we depart from earth. How so?
If you were born in the city where it is usually the hospital which delivers you into this world, the gynecologist, obstetrician, nurses and midwives surround your mother awaiting your arrival. These are jobs that these medical professionals do to make births possible and successful. But even if you were born in a far-flung rural area, still, the local midwife is at your mother's side performing birth assistance job.
At the other extreme, the embalmer or crematorium operator, funeral car driver, florist, sepulchre and other workers in the death-related and allied businesses or professions take you to your ultimate resting place here on earth.
So what lies in between?
From childhood, the pediatrician, the family doctor, the nursery and kindergarten teachers are job holders that guide us in the first steps of our earthly journey. As we grow, we buy food from the grocer, medicines and candies from the corner drugstore, soda pop and fries from the fast food stand nearby and large toys from department stores and malls less than half-a-mile away.
Jobs are all around us. But we seem oblivious of them. We focus on what we intend to do with our lives. "I want to become a doctor." "I will be a scientist when I grow up." "I will fight crime. It will be my mission." "I will eradicate graft and corruption in this country." These are how careers are hatched. If the environment becomes supportive to these career dreams, then science and medicine will one day open their arms to more discoveries and exemplary medical services. Police and security will be reinforced. The political arena will see another statesman rise and bring back the confidence of the governed. These and more dreams stand to be realised. More employment opportunities will open up. And more careers built.
When it is our turn to have a family with kids of our own, we dream no more. Our childhood is replayed right before our eyes with different characters playing the roles in different settings as we go about what used to be our parents' roles. The cycle of life on earth.
Everyday life is nothing but work. We sometimes feel burned out with the routine. So we take a vacation to refresh ourselves and relearn the feeling of missing our employment or our businesses. We come back to work with renewed energy and resolve. We perform better and become a contagion in the workplace. Everybody becomes more productive and sales shoot up. The company soars even higher, creating more and more opportunities for others.
Oftentimes, painting such scenarios as fantastic as the ones above builds us up and offer insights that become cornerstones for improvements and innovations in the workplace. It just needs a little imagination to make a blueprint of the corporate redirection plan and make it work.
If you were born in the city where it is usually the hospital which delivers you into this world, the gynecologist, obstetrician, nurses and midwives surround your mother awaiting your arrival. These are jobs that these medical professionals do to make births possible and successful. But even if you were born in a far-flung rural area, still, the local midwife is at your mother's side performing birth assistance job.
At the other extreme, the embalmer or crematorium operator, funeral car driver, florist, sepulchre and other workers in the death-related and allied businesses or professions take you to your ultimate resting place here on earth.
So what lies in between?
From childhood, the pediatrician, the family doctor, the nursery and kindergarten teachers are job holders that guide us in the first steps of our earthly journey. As we grow, we buy food from the grocer, medicines and candies from the corner drugstore, soda pop and fries from the fast food stand nearby and large toys from department stores and malls less than half-a-mile away.
Jobs are all around us. But we seem oblivious of them. We focus on what we intend to do with our lives. "I want to become a doctor." "I will be a scientist when I grow up." "I will fight crime. It will be my mission." "I will eradicate graft and corruption in this country." These are how careers are hatched. If the environment becomes supportive to these career dreams, then science and medicine will one day open their arms to more discoveries and exemplary medical services. Police and security will be reinforced. The political arena will see another statesman rise and bring back the confidence of the governed. These and more dreams stand to be realised. More employment opportunities will open up. And more careers built.
When it is our turn to have a family with kids of our own, we dream no more. Our childhood is replayed right before our eyes with different characters playing the roles in different settings as we go about what used to be our parents' roles. The cycle of life on earth.
Everyday life is nothing but work. We sometimes feel burned out with the routine. So we take a vacation to refresh ourselves and relearn the feeling of missing our employment or our businesses. We come back to work with renewed energy and resolve. We perform better and become a contagion in the workplace. Everybody becomes more productive and sales shoot up. The company soars even higher, creating more and more opportunities for others.
Oftentimes, painting such scenarios as fantastic as the ones above builds us up and offer insights that become cornerstones for improvements and innovations in the workplace. It just needs a little imagination to make a blueprint of the corporate redirection plan and make it work.
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