To be forced to do anything makes it less than likable. But deciding to help someone or that you want to do something makes it enjoyable. Autonomy is actually always available because no one can make you do anything you don’t want to. There can be consequences but it is always in your decision to walk way. “I have to go to work today!” is what I said to myself a few days ago and then thought, I don’t. No one is making me, my boss will be mad but it is still my decision not his emotion or order that makes me move.
So I decided to see work as my decision. I was going to go help them with some things. Immediately it became fun and enjoyable. I was assisting them with things they needed and I enjoy doing so. The flip made the tasks at work permission and space to be fun feats instead of irritating forced drudgery.
There is always an element of who you are at work and what that job “makes” you. Nobody wants to be an ass-wiper, dirt-cleaner, dish-washer but everyone does those things. What you do at work is not who you are but an activity you engage in. To see yourself as that drudgery plus er does ruin a slightly boring job into a devastating unfaceable fate. The long run is always important to consider but in a moment eternity can seem so totally painted when in fact you always have the options and more than likely the fated change of fate. I don’t hate my job but it seems like a trap and I don’t like being seen as less than I am. But I am just me, doing this task.
