My job is...

It’s a fact! We spend a big chunk of our lives working. Day in and day out we go to our places of employment, we work at completing the tasks and responsibilities we were hired to do, and we anxiously await payday so we can receive our hard earned money. Even though we spend so much of our time on the job, it is surprising how many people tend to dislike what they do, or at least waste time and energy complaining about it. When you think about it, we spend about one-third of our daily lives working. I liken this to my “mattress theory” which is this: We spend a third of our lives sleeping. Say you sleep on average seven hours a night. That is 2,555 (of a possible 8,760) hours a year that you spend slumbering away on your bed. If that’s the case, I can’t possibly understand not purchasing a decent mattress, one that you find utterly and wonderfully comfy. Otherwise, you will have wasted one-third of your, day, week, month, year, or even life not sleeping as well you possibly could.

The same is true about our work lives. With as much time as we spend working, it is exceptionally nice when we can find a job that we at least enjoy doing. Of course, there will always be exceptions. In my case, I would’t call my job as an administrative assistant my dream job by any stretch of the imagination. (That’s why I’m in school.) To be honest, it’s quite easy and even a bit dull at times. Still, I am extremely thankful for my job, as it really has been the perfect one for me while I finish my education. It is without a dobut low-stress, close to home, and pays well. So I most definitely cannot complain. And sure, with the economy and the unemployment rate the way it is, often people are more inclined to take a job merely for the fact that it will provide money to pay the bills, rather than whether or not they will find true satisfaction in the work. Completely understandable. Still, whether your current job is that ideal dream job you always imagined, or just a means to an end, this simple fact remains: You are still spending about one-third of your time doing it. So why waste all that time and energy being unhappy, discontent, or even just mildly annoyed. No matter what job you have, or how and why you do it, there is still much to be thankful for...after all, there are nearly 14.8 million Americans looking for work these days. (Yes...I'm a dork and checked out the U.S. Dept. of Labor stats.) So I ever so gently remind you to focus on the positives rather than the negatives. "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
(Frederick Keonig)

Of course, that doesn't mean we can’t poke fun just a wee bit at our work. After all, life without a little bit of humor is somewhat dull. I ran across this on the internet and found it pretty funny.
Here are the top 10 answers.

My Job is to ______.

1. Help people hate each other: Divorce Lawyer
2. Stand on a field and get yelled at for hours: Baseball Umpire
3. Talk in other people’s sleep: College Professor
4. Call people who know what they’re doing and ask them what they’re doing:
Incident Manager
5. Show people how beautiful the Earth would be without them: Mountain
Landscape Photographer/Climber
6. Make people feel bad about their work: Quality Assurance Tester
7. Repeatedly fix what you repeatedly break: IT Director
8. Clean up an animal that makes more money then me in a year: Assistant Horse Trainer
9. Write words that no one wants to read: Technical Writer
10. Make food that is as healthy before it goes in your body as when it comes back out: Fast Food Employee

Can you describe your job in one sentence?

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