When Work Is No Longer Work

I met two people today. They work in a small food chain. During the course of their training they underwent an exposure calling customers and inviting them to dine in. They did this out of fun putting in the best effort to their job. In one of those days of work bouts, one customer asked them how much they are getting doing their job. They responded saying "it is not much but we enjoy what we are doing".

They also added that a lot more passers-by asked them the same question and they responded they same. While they were narrating with me, true enough I could see the fun that they went through with their work. They are simple individuals who like and are happy with their jobs and who just want others to experience the same.

I had the feeling from their sharing that people associate effort with work with corresponding monetary value. Unfortunately, there is no truth in it correlating it with joy, satisfaction or happiness. We may continue to complain about salary, prices of commodities, and many other stuffs in life but the choice to live life fully is ours not anyone or at the mercy and dictate of anyone else.

When work is perceived as fun, regardless of the pay one will end his day still having fun devoid of the stress to forcing oneself to work just to earn. I do envy the characters of my sharing in this blog. I mean they are not just characters. They are real individuals trying to tell me that working is not all for the money. It is all about making a difference, finding meaning, putting the real self in it and the passion to relate with others forgetting about counting the cost. This one is service...in its truest sense...:-)

Well, before these two individuals ended their day, someone approached to give the a tip( to their biggest surprise). Hmmmm they did not want to have it but they got it as they were forced by a foreigner gentleman to have it since he was so amused seeing both of them having fun and dancing with the music played.

Wow...:-) great job...wonderful individuals. Though, there might not be tips floating with extra effort. The fun and making others happy is more than enough of the bonus one can have...:-) Beautiful...oh so beautiful...:-)