- 2016-06-18
- Posted by: Corina Neagu
- Category: Consiliere in cariera, Recrutare
Inspirația mea zilnică vine dinspre oameni care vor, pot, reușesc. Îi urmăresc, citesc despre ei, le observ atitudinea, realizările, învăț de la ei. Avem modele, totul e să le căutăm și să le găsim și să luăm ce este mai bun de la ele.
Niciodată nu m-am complăcut într-un job în care nu mai puteam aduce valoare adăugată sau care nu-mi mai aducea satisfacții. M-am obișnuit cu ideea de a închide o ușă pentru a deschide altele, neimaginate. Pentru foarte mulți zona de confort este greu de abandonat, chiar dacă nu aduce niciun fel de împlinire sufletească, ci doar salariul de la sfârșitul lunii. Depinde, evident, de ce-ți dorești. Dar dacă asta este ceea ce-ți dorești, poate ar fi cazul să nu te mai plângi, căci îți place să stai la loc călduț, fără a face niciun efort înspre a-ți fi puțin mai bine.
Foarte mulți dintre noi fac un compomis uriaș rămânând în companiile în care lucrează din motive extrem de obiective, care se rezumă, într-un final, la stabilitatea financiară. Căci de asta avem, toți, cu siguranță, nevoie. Este perfect adevărat că fără bani nu poți face absolut nimic, dar banii sunt și vor rămâne doar un mijloc. Modul în care faci lucrurile, spunea o prietenă de-a mea, este cel care-ți asigură succesul. Ne e teamă să încercăm lucruri noi de teamă să nu eșuăm lamentabil.
Preferăm să eșuăm la locul de muncă făcând ceva care nu ne place sau lucrând cu oameni cu care nu ne potrivim într-o cultură organizațională stradală și haotică, în loc să facem pași înspre ce ne definește ca oameni și ce ne dă cu adevărat valoare.
Până la urmă e vorba doar de decizie personală și de asumarea ei chiar și în cele mai grele momente, când doare cel mai tare. Atunci se vede cu adevărat dorința omului de a reuși și de a merge mai departe cu curaj, decență, implicare, încredere.
Poate această scrisoare vă inspiră, așa cum a făcut-o și cu mine, și mi-a întărit convingerea că omul sfințește locul și că nimeni nu poate sta în calea pasiunilor noastre. Atunci când credem cu adevărat în ele.
Citez:
“Hello John:
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or make films about it, they don’t get it right. They call it “9 to 5.” It’s never 9 to 5, there’s no free lunch break at those places, in fact, at many of them in order to keep your job you don’t take lunch. Then there’s overtime and the books never seem to get the overtime right and if you complain about that, there’s another sucker to take your place.
You know my old saying, “Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.”
And what hurts is the steadily diminishing humanity of those fighting to hold jobs they don’t want but fear the alternative worse. People simply empty out. They are bodies with fearful and obedient minds. The color leaves the eye. The voice becomes ugly. And the body. The hair. The fingernails. The shoes. Everything does.
As a young man I could not believe that people could give their lives over to those conditions.
As an old man, I still can’t believe it. What do they do it for? Sex? TV? An automobile on monthly payments? Or children? Children who are just going to do the same things that they did?
Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: “Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?”
They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Now in industry, there are vast layoffs (steel mills dead, technical changes in other factors of the work place). They are layed off by the hundreds of thousands and their faces are stunned:
“I put in 35 years…”
“It ain’t right…”
“I don’t know what to do…”
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work. I could see all this. Why couldn’t they? I figured the park bench was just as good or being a barfly was just as good. Why not get there first before they put me there? Why wait?
I just wrote in disgust against it all, it was a relief to get the shit out of my system. And now that I’m here, a so-called professional writer, after giving the first 50 years away, I’ve found out that there are other disgusts beyond the system.
I remember once, working as a packer in this lighting fixture company, one of the packers suddenly said:
“I’ll never be free!”
One of the bosses was walking by (his name was Morrie) and he let out this delicious cackle of a laugh, enjoying the fact that this fellow was trapped for life.
So, the luck I finally had in getting out of those places, no matter how long it took, has given me a kind of joy, the jolly joy of the miracle. I now write from an old mind and an old body, long beyond the time when most men would ever think of continuing such a thing, but since I started so late I owe it to myself to continue, and when the words begin to falter and I must be helped up stairways and I can no longer tell a bluebird from a paperclip, I still feel that something in me is going to remember (no matter how far I’m gone) how I’ve come through the murder and the mess and the moil, to at least a generous way to die.
To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
yr boy,
Hank” – Charles Bukowski către John Martin, 1986
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