Repeat pill and the Best pill
Life kept telling me that she’ll always be unpredictable and for some reason, she stopped telling me so for a while. When I got to realize it and questioned her about it, she replied me that work ‘life’ would be different from normal life and that the law of unpredictability might not be applicable in the so called work-life. It took me a while to understand what she said. The answer could be simply understod if we could recognize the fact that we would be able to predict anything and everything when we get bored. Imagine a person walking in a vast desert, he knows it to his deepest instincts that the next thing he would see is sand, the next step he would take would be through sand and the only logic he would be applying would deal with repeating. One can recognize that he could easily predict everything that he would want to. There it is, life herself stated that law of unpredictability couldn’t be affirmed in the case of work life. One knows that he has to wake up early, swipe his card within a particular time, sit there, work on that, talk with them, bitch about those, wait for swipe out and get the hell out of there to reach home to do nothing. As the sun goes down and moon comes up, all we do is to check whether the next day is a weekend or not (what a simple and predictable ‘if’ statement that would be!!).
The only reason that kept the person in the desert going was that he knew that there would be an end to this sand ocean. Similarly, one knew that he would receive an incentive after a certain period of time for the usual he was bearing. Thinking about the same, I was able to categorize works into two types. Type#1 works have three stages in their structure. They are introduced to employees as something called as “usual”. As the timeline extends, the employee starts accepting it as “routine”. Here comes the last stage where the predictability levels reach to maximum measures and employees confirm to something called “boredom”. After the three stages, a person goes for a choice. Just like Matrix movie which had a red pill and a blue pill, a person would select an Repeat pill or a Best pill in his work life. Repeat pill would take him to type#1 work. Best pill would take him to type#2 which we are going to see now.
What if the person never cared whether the desert would end or not and still he got going. What if there is no drive called ‘incentive’ in the work you do and still you would go for that. That’s Type#2 for you. The only and the “best” reason that Type#2 fits you well is that it erases the line between work life and life.
It may take a while but choose the wiser decision
