The 9 to 5 Life - What's there to dread so much about it?
Hi there! It's a gleeful Sunday Morning (for most of you'll who just got up a while back, it is still morning right) / Afternoon, and I know I'm late for uploading a post by a day, but well, here I'm with a new post which I have been meaning to write since a really long time, because I was searching for answers myself too. You've read the topic of the blog-post and I'm sure you know where this post is inclined to.
*Disclaimer - This post is a highly opinionated one, if you agree to it, I'm grateful to you, if you don't agree to it, lets' just peacefully share views in the comments section, without being offended like the 'Karni Sena's' of the world !
All thanks to the 'Urban Dictionary', it's like, whenever someone comes across the term 9 to 5, most of them think of it as 'Job Slavery' or probably someone who lives a mediocre life.
But WHY so? Why do people have to be so negatively opinionated about 'Job Life'? - I think the answer is pretty simple: It's very easy to blame others for your own miseries, for everything that's wrong in your own life. If you have chosen the 9 to 5 Life for yourself, in the name of gaining 'experience' before venturing out your own 'business', why do you have to dread it, why do you have call a person 'mediocre' for choosing a life that is less complicated with the mess of being an entrepreneur? Perhaps, some people love having a sorted, simple life and as a matter of fact, I don't think so any 'job' as such is stopping you from making more money than just the salary that is credited in your account every month, I doubt that!
I think the 9 to 5 life's 'dread syndrome' crept into people's mind's because of the wrongful notion that, 'Why do you want to work under someone? You don't have it in you for standing on your own feet or what?' - Perhaps this is one of the type of 'peer' and 'social' pressure which makes people get into the maddening churn of entrepreneurship and start-ups. Listen up, unless you feel like you are too creative for a normal job, do not let these types of norms be the reason you start dreading the 9 to 5 Life.
While we're at it, let's take a look at how organizations have evolved over the years into making a more 'employee-friendly' work-culture so that the employees work as hard as they would do in their own venture, here are they:
1. Flexi-Timings, Work-from Home, Weekends Off, Paid-Leave System and the likes
2. Fixed Salary and Benefits
3. Learning, Training and Development Initiatives
4. Performance Management Systems, Appraisals and Incentives
5. Insurance, Perks and Vacations
6. Infrastructural Amenities and in some cases: Pick-up and Drop Services
7. Day Care Centers (especially for the Women Employee's Children)
8. Accommodation Help if required
9. Review Systems, Employee Engagement Activities etc.
and many more...
Next, work-life balance. I still stand by the same opinion that, maintaining your life's work-life balance, be it in a job or in your own business, totally depends on YOU! You need to set lines for yourself and for others to know as to how comfortable are you with work-hours, night-shifts and other related aspects of Work-Life Balance. And, if you think you will have immense amount of time for your own self when you're having your own start-up, let me tell you this, that road is not easy AT ALL - in that aspect, you are responsible for the minute-est of things and have a lot of responsibility of every stakeholder involved in that venture. Read this post for more: Things No One Will Tell You About Entrepreneurship.
Also read: Choose: Entrepreneur Life vs. Employee Life
Having said all this, the only way out of making the 9 to 5 Life synonymous with 'dreadful' is by putting a stop to that habit of complaining / blaming others and the employer for the 9 to 5 Life that you have chosen for yourself and take charge of it, and also, if you aren't happy with the work that you're doing at your job, doesn't mean you demotivate and degrade those who are happy with the Job Life that they have chosen to live.
Told you, this post is a highly opinionated one! Comment down below with your views for or against this post. PS: Thank you all for following up and reading my posts till now, it makes me continue this hobby of mine and share views with you all.
Also, here are two books that you can or rather you should refer to, if you really want to have 'fun' with your 9 to 5 Life:
1) Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - Alexander Kjerulf
2) The 9-to-5 Cure: Work on Your Own Terms and Reinvent Your Life – Kristin Cardinale
Much Love, Positivity and Gratitude.
- Binal R. Chitroda
(#TheHRConnect)
All thanks to the 'Urban Dictionary', it's like, whenever someone comes across the term 9 to 5, most of them think of it as 'Job Slavery' or probably someone who lives a mediocre life.
I think the 9 to 5 life's 'dread syndrome' crept into people's mind's because of the wrongful notion that, 'Why do you want to work under someone? You don't have it in you for standing on your own feet or what?' - Perhaps this is one of the type of 'peer' and 'social' pressure which makes people get into the maddening churn of entrepreneurship and start-ups. Listen up, unless you feel like you are too creative for a normal job, do not let these types of norms be the reason you start dreading the 9 to 5 Life.
While we're at it, let's take a look at how organizations have evolved over the years into making a more 'employee-friendly' work-culture so that the employees work as hard as they would do in their own venture, here are they:
1. Flexi-Timings, Work-from Home, Weekends Off, Paid-Leave System and the likes
2. Fixed Salary and Benefits
3. Learning, Training and Development Initiatives
4. Performance Management Systems, Appraisals and Incentives
5. Insurance, Perks and Vacations
6. Infrastructural Amenities and in some cases: Pick-up and Drop Services
7. Day Care Centers (especially for the Women Employee's Children)
8. Accommodation Help if required
9. Review Systems, Employee Engagement Activities etc.
and many more...
Next, work-life balance. I still stand by the same opinion that, maintaining your life's work-life balance, be it in a job or in your own business, totally depends on YOU! You need to set lines for yourself and for others to know as to how comfortable are you with work-hours, night-shifts and other related aspects of Work-Life Balance. And, if you think you will have immense amount of time for your own self when you're having your own start-up, let me tell you this, that road is not easy AT ALL - in that aspect, you are responsible for the minute-est of things and have a lot of responsibility of every stakeholder involved in that venture. Read this post for more: Things No One Will Tell You About Entrepreneurship.
Also read: Choose: Entrepreneur Life vs. Employee Life
Having said all this, the only way out of making the 9 to 5 Life synonymous with 'dreadful' is by putting a stop to that habit of complaining / blaming others and the employer for the 9 to 5 Life that you have chosen for yourself and take charge of it, and also, if you aren't happy with the work that you're doing at your job, doesn't mean you demotivate and degrade those who are happy with the Job Life that they have chosen to live.
Told you, this post is a highly opinionated one! Comment down below with your views for or against this post. PS: Thank you all for following up and reading my posts till now, it makes me continue this hobby of mine and share views with you all.
Also, here are two books that you can or rather you should refer to, if you really want to have 'fun' with your 9 to 5 Life:
1) Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - Alexander Kjerulf
2) The 9-to-5 Cure: Work on Your Own Terms and Reinvent Your Life – Kristin Cardinale
Much Love, Positivity and Gratitude.
- Binal R. Chitroda
(#TheHRConnect)