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A friend once told me “If you are
not whistling on your way to work you are in the wrong career…”
Whistle I say…. Whistle? Who’s got the time to whistle…I am too
busy cutting off the person front of me and to the side while trying to
balance a cup of coffee, a lit cigarette (I know, I know, a bad habit
…), and my mobile (yes, to this day I still have to call mother every
morning for her to know that I am still alive and assure her that no I
have yet to meet someone and that I am running late for work…. you
would think I could just record this conversation and play it for her
each morning, but that would become too technical and well, we just
won’t even get to that!…)
However, since her comment on this whole whistle thing, I have been
curious as to if I would want to whistle meaning if I do like my job…I
have actually tried whistling while waiting at a red light, but it seems
more natural to just scream! I ask myself is that normal? Then
again I think to myself “ how many people truly enjoy their jobs?” I
can’t name anyone I know, can you? Sure, some have better status
positions
than others do, some make more salary, some have better pension
plans/stock options, etc. but I can’t think of anyone who enjoys
working!
Some of my friends work the regular 9-5 jobs and live it up on the
weekends, they say it makes up for the work days! Others are the extreme
opposite and work 17 hr days and even on the weekends. They always
complaint about the work, how it is so stressful, and how they would
love a career change. But they do the long hours to either get away from
other obstacles in their lives, to be the next in line for
that big promotion, to try to keep up with this prestige lifestyle of
theirs (which most Iranians don’t even enjoy their money because they
are too busy trying to compete with one another), or because they have
nothing else to do. I doubt if they whistle on their way to work! Does
being successful count as actually enjoying what you do for work?
Then I think to myself how would I even know what job I would enjoy
doing? Let me be a little clearer. I studied a specific subject in
college, graduated, got a job with a successful firm (successful in my
field of
studies) and have been working there since. To sum it up, I do not even
know anything about other professions out there never mind knowing if I
would enjoy doing them! Should I switch to a career, which seems
intriguing to me even though it might cause a few steps back in my
career due to my lack of
experience within the new industry? Isn’t that a little too risky?
Then again, aren’t I worth the risk? What would I risk it for, to
whistle?
I have been so frustrated from the whistle comment from this friend that
I decided to give her a call and thank her personally for making me feel
so incomplete, unfulfilled, and unsatisfied about my career and success
in life!
I dialed her number and a strange manly voice answers the phone (she
lived alone), I ask for her and he informed me that she quite her job
and moved to Mexico to study Yoga and become in touch with her true self
and he is subleasing the place from her. I managed to thank the man on
the phone and hang up. There I stood, in the middle of my living room,
staring into mid-air becoming very angry. This person has made me
analyze my entire education, career, self being and now she is living it
up in Mexico, doing Yoga, what? And it suddenly occurred to me. She had
risked it all. I remember she had told me how much she enjoyed yoga and
wanted to practice it. I could just hear it now, the sound of her
whistle!
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