It’s as easy as that. Going through a day at work can be grooling. Especially if you don’t have your facts set straight. You shouldn’t view work as a pass time or as just something you do to make a living. Work should be something you love doing and, therefore, something you look forward to sharing.

There will come a time when you reach such a level of mastery in your line of work that you will have the opportunity to teach others and impart your knowledge. By all means, do so. You don’t what to become one of those persons that holds everything back and keeps things to himself, because at the end of you long day at work you’ll ask yourself, “What did I do today?” And it’s up to you what the answer to that question is.

Did you make the world a better place, one sand particle at a time? I hope so. What goes around comes around.

You spend all your childhood dreaming about how your going to save the world by becoming a fireman or a doctor. But then you start growing up and enter that time in your life where you’re neither a child nor an adult. You’re still have brains the size of a peanut and the thinking power of an origami frog, yet you’re starting to develop ideas of your own and you’re starting to define what is and what isn’t right for you, a crucial part of your life.

Hold on to this part of your life. I’ve always been an enemy of holding on, but in this case I’ll make an exception. This is a phase when you acquire passion. Uninfluenced, pressure-free, unscathed-by-the-cruel-unrelenting-world passion.

Then, you start growing up. You’re forced to face that fact you YOU HAVE TO WORK. That or starve to death. And if somehow you manage to get a job (which is not that hard in a developed country), you start to realize that life is not what you thought it was and that YOU WANT OUT. Well guess what buddy boy, that’s not gonna happen. I’m not writing these passionate words just so you quit.

PASSION. Mix passion+humanism+work and you have the perfect equation to achieve a rich, fulfilled, and regret-free life. You will be reaching the golden pot at the en of the rainbow. So ask yourself, “What is my passion?”, and move with your chin up high in the direction in which you can exercise this passion of yours.

Everyone has a dream job that they want. I want to be a mechanical engineer, working at my very own company. We’re all allowed to dream, but the question is… When do I decide to take that dream and make it a reality. When do I take hold of those loose and chaotic reins and steer that mechanical horse in the direction that I want to go through. Action is necessary, but more than action it is the determination that you WILL find that dream job.

Having said that, once you have such a resolve that is beyond contestation, your next task at hand is to find that job you want so much:

1. Take out a pen and paper.
2. Determine which job you want. List every single aspect of it in profound detail (what salary, what work environment, what boss, what coworkers, what location, everything)
3. Brainstorm a list of companies that offer that job with those details you just listed.
4. Visit, in person, every single one of those companies with resume in hand.
5. Ask if they, by any chance, have that job position opened, if they are hiring, and that you are the most appropriate man for the job.
   • Some will say no. No matter, leave you resume anyway.
   • Some will say yes, and give you an interview, or ask for a resume (good thing you brought it along huh?).

Now, you know what to do from here right? If not wait for my next post, where I will let you in on how to handle a job interview.

If you see that things at work aren’t operating as they should be, and that you could make a significant difference, when your coworkers are giving you a hard time, and you boss seems to be dancing to you coworkers tunes, then maybe it’s time that YOU became the boss.

Hear me out for a second here. If you became the boss, the possibilities are endless. You’re coworkers will no longer be your coworkers, they will be employees which you guide in the right direction. You can change your work environment for the better. Think about it.

There I go minding my own business. I cool, I’m chillin’, talking PEACEFULLY with my girl, when all of a sudden, my girl’s face starts turning red and she starts yelling at me with no apparent reason. And I’m like, “What in the name did I do to you!? Get of my back!” And I left her in her tantrum.

Than I talked to mom. I asked her for a logical explanation for what had just happened. She told me it had nothing to do with me. She told me it was PMS. Now, I had heard of it before, but it just didn’t occur to me at the time, but I was enlightened by this small peace of info.

I did some research which only managed to make me confused, but this is what I got out of it. Basically, what I understood is that the menstrual cycle last 28 days, 14 out of which, women are ovulating. The first 7 days out of those 14 she will have HIGH hormones, and the other 7 days she will have LOW hormones.

Now, as a man, I understand that we think in numbers. So let me translate that for you. The month has 30 days. 14 out of those days she will be a pain in the neck. That means that 46.6% of the time she will be moody.

So what you have to do is understand that this is a part of the female personality. So don’t get mad. Remember if it weren’t for PMS we wouldn’t be her right now. So enjoy the ride.

Well, if you watch the same shows I watch, you’ll be familiar with this one. There’s a Friends episode where super hot Rachel is sitting in Central Perk and she suddenly realizes that her life is going nowhere, and that her job as a waitress is not helping either. Her two good friends Chandler and Joey motivate her by telling her that all she needs is “The Fear”.

They tell her that what she need is to quit her job so that the fear of starving to death caused by the lack of a job will motivate her to get a job that she truly wants. She then quits her job, and within a week she gets the job that she desires most.

It works pretty much the same in real life. I’m not saying to senselessly quit you job. It’s just that if there’s something that you want, you should pursue it, and take steps towards attaining it. Be it a new job, the girl of your dreams, a better sex life. Get rid of what gets in you way, and when the fear hits you, use it as a catalyst to become fearless and achieve your goals. Be fearless.

Work is a hassle all on it’s own, and having a cruddy boss doesn’t help. Listen, I now what it’s having a “pain in the ass boss”, having one myself. He’s unfair with you , and never treats like you deserve to be treated. You’re a GREAT employee and he never seems to notice or give. But these are quite possibly the wisest words you’ll ever read with regards to your boss. Never fight with your boss even though you hate him. That is, unless you want to get fired.

If you feel he’s doing something unfair don’t fight! I’m not saying to bottle up all the “happy” feelings. Instead, take a deep breath, count to ten to calm the anger, and negotiate. That’s right, NEGOTIATE. What do you want? What is it that’s bothering you and why? Think it through and then communicate. Do it sincerely and from the heart. This will break the ice and likely change your situation for the better.

Stress is not good for you. You start getting mad easily, you start looking at people the wrong way, you get into unnecessary quarrels, and you get a few nervous twitches along the way. For centuries man has had an urge to solve his stress problems, and for centuries man has had an excellent tool to get rid of stress right in front of his nose. MUSIC!

Music is a great stress reliever. It’s the only human art form that can truly touch your soul and alter your emotional status. And the best thing is that it’s available to anyone, anywhere, and anyhow.

I, for example, love rock. Anything with a bad ass guitar and a rocker voice really turns me on. So what do I do? The minute I get home, I crank up the volume and scream my head off to one of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers best songs. My family wants to kick me out of the house afterwards, but who cares.

So find a genre of your liking and turn that volume nod 360 degrees to the right. You’ll enjoy that.

I was chatting with my dad the other day. He’s a good man. I often feel like his clone. We look the same, we act the same, we walk the same, we’re even as reserved as each other. It’s pretty cool. My similarity to him often makes me seek his counsel.

There where certain situations at work that I was not happy with. To be specific, my boss was giving me a hard time because I was making too many mistakes. This was due to the fact that we where missing personnel, so I was doing twice the work. This made me want to quit, because it just wasn’t fair. So I talked to father.

He said, “Always try NOT to quit your job. It’s hard to get one you know. If you feel you want to quit ask this question before doing it, ‘Is it something that I have to improve on my part?’ If the answer is yes, then don’t quit.” This got me thinking, and I concluded that I COULD improve my performance. So I did, and all was well.

Wise words from Dad.

I work at Xerox as a Graphical Designer. It’s a gratifying job, but it has its ups and downs. At times I have SO much work to do that I don’t have time to blog *tears*. Nonetheless, it’s a great learning process, and for that I am grateful. One of the things I’ve had to learn is dealing with clients. Some clients are very nice, but the great majorities are less than pleasant.

I will reveal the biggest rule of thumb that I have come up with when dealing with clients. The key factor is the level of attention you give a particular client. Give her LOTS of attention. Get involved with her problem and try to find a solution. For example, if you’re overdue with a job, it doesn’t matter as long as you treat the client with respect, and demonstrate to her that YOU CARE about her problem, and brainstorm as many solutions as you can, she will not get mad.

NEVER, argue with her. It doesn’t work. It just creates conflict and you’ll be in a pickle if things escalate. Be sweet as banana nut bread, and you’ll be OK.