True Happiness at work ? What is it?

[Tiredofthesystem]

I'll try and take a different approach here since the moderator got an itchy trigger finger. I really wasnt trying to bring down the forum. I come from a pure unsolicited place with my resentment towards how nurses are over loaded and I will do something about it eventually. ( No Im not going to go in and spray everyone with a magnum ).

My master question is:


Do you guys think its possible to actually go in and LOVE your job ( or ANY job ) everyday?

Do you think that there are people who cannot wait to get up and go in and do their job?

Is this a reality of happiness perhaps a tainted void with segways of fixed misrepresentation of unity and courtesy in your own mind?

If its not a reality, then is it a possible lemming trait?

If its not a reality, is it because you have become numb and void of accepting that there are people who live a more "True North Principal" based life, and who have not let their tolerance meter fly out the window?

Like the great DR Phil once said.... most people are satisfied and happy doing what they do today not because their truly happy, but because its better than what they did in the past.

-Banned Barry

[cassioo]

Do you guys think its possible to actually go in and LOVE your job ( or ANY job ) everyday?

ok the answer wtih your other approach.....will anyone love any job everyday? answer NO
will they like it everyday or everything about it everyday NO

Do I like my job YES
Do I love my job YES

Am I happy to be up at 5am on Sunday getting ready to leave the house at 6 and be at work at 7 Not really but nursing in a hospital is a 24-7 operation and everyone gets their turn. I worked in a well staffed hospital on a really well staffed unit and even though this was my weekend I still got off yesterday and only have to work 1 day of "my weekend"

Am I happy with my schedule? Yes for the most part. I have a good boss that will schedule you where you want and goes out of her way to give you off everyday you ask for. She even works the floor herself and takes on-call time many weekends and most holidays so we don't have to.

Am I happy with all of the policies? well no but I'm not unhappy with them either. Sure there are lots of policies that are there just because some government agency says they have to be or the hospital might not get paid... that's a government issue talk to the lawmakers about some of the silly things they've set up.

Am I happy with my pay..Yes. Sure I'd like more but for my job as a RN I'm at the top of my pay scale at my hospital and in this area (we are getting a 3% raise that goes in to effect today and I got my lump sum yearly bonus coming at the end of the month) I could make more in a different area of the country but my house payment would be twice as much as it is here.

Are my co-workers *****y...sometime, so am I sometimes and it's not because we're nurses it's because we're people. There are a couple that are lazier then others but the majority pull their weight and we work as a good team. (I do love my weekend co-workers we really have a good time at work)

Do I love my job as a Labor and Delivery nurse YES. I love seeing new babies come into the world and helping families through the best times of their life... I hate my job when a baby dies at any stage, I hate when teenagers or anybody comes in strung out on drugs and then can't figure out what is wrong with their baby. No I don't like the paperwork involved but again gotta do it there's a sue happy society out there. There are other tasks that aren't lots of fun but they have to be done and they don't take from the big picture of my job

I like teaching nursing students that want to learn. I don't like teaching those that think they are going to be getting into an easy job for easy money.

Am I a just out of college fresh faced new grad? No I'm an over 40 married (to a retired USAF man who can now be the stay at home dad who couldn't even be in the country when his older children were small)with children (3 of whom have been raised and moved out and 1 grade schooler left at home) I have many friends, outside interests, travel alot. I only have to work 3 days per week but I can pick up more whenever I want to. I've worked in stores, factory...9 year of union work, other nursing departments in other hospitals..

I've liked all of my nursing jobs but really do love this one I think I"ll keep it. Should I choose not to then that's my choice to move on.

[hsieh]

yes i love my job. i work with mentally ill adults. i like to joke with them and help them with anything they request. i lke to make them feel special - since we live in a culture that can be cruel to people who aren't 100% healthy. and by having experience with this population i can tell friends family and others that the stigma of the mentally ill is media driven and prejudice and from the old days when people didn't understand mental illness. people with mental illness are more likely to be victimized by other than to be the ones who do the victimizing. people who aren't mentally ill are more likely to be violent than those with mental illness.

[Tiredofthesystem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCiZb...elated&search=

[hsieh]

so you're saying true happiness at work can only be achieved by being in a band? dude.... you're to abstract for me. can you be more concrete? or as my brother says "i can't be more 'concrete' but i can be more like a monkey".

[hsieh]

actually from what i've read being in a band isn't that great. i read the book about - BLINK 182 - named - Tales From Beneath Your Mom - written by anna hoppus - which is the bass player's sister - anyways life on the raod is hard because you're away from home and there's long spells of boredom, driving in snow storms, etc. plus you're not making an income for a while because all pay goes to expenses - so it ain't a bed of roses.

[cassioo]

I'm friends with a couple of country music singers both members of the Opry. One is a major singer the other still has his foot in big projects but only plays limited shows. Both have been divorced and now remarried 8 years each one with kids the other without. Both have had substance abuse problems. Both have talked about the fake friends that only want them for their money and the women that would throw themselves at them before they were married and still do even knowing they are married. I know they both love making their music but they have had problems with record labels (who promote them and put out the music or have had them under contract and wouldn't put their stuff out) They have their times of being happy with what they do but they like everyone else have the times they aren't happy with all the "stuff" that goes with their job either.... I didn't look at the link just commenting on the previous replies about being in a band makes you happy.
I also stay in contact with a couple of the guys that used to be in the band of one of the guys and they've had to take side jobs like landscaping when the music they'd like to play jobs aren't coming through.

[hsieh]

with the crocodile hunter dieing unexpectably in a freak accident - you don't know how long you've got left in life. we'd all like to live to be 100 but the truth is few people make it to that age. if tiredofthesystem has a loved one who's work is making them hate life than they better move on and get something that does - just like the crocodile hunter we don't know when we're going to go unexpectably - so we should be as happy as much as possible in life. if your loved one has er exp than she can work for a temp agency which pay top dollar and they choose when and where to work.

[SoldierNurse]

I'll try and take a different approach here since the moderator got an itchy trigger finger. I really wasnt trying to bring down the forum. I come from a pure unsolicited place with my resentment towards how nurses are over loaded and I will do something about it eventually. ( No Im not going to go in and spray everyone with a magnum ).

My master question is:


Do you guys think its possible to actually go in and LOVE your job ( or ANY job ) everyday?

Do you think that there are people who cannot wait to get up and go in and do their job?

Is this a reality of happiness perhaps a tainted void with segways of fixed misrepresentation of unity and courtesy in your own mind?

If its not a reality, then is it a possible lemming trait?

If its not a reality, is it because you have become numb and void of accepting that there are people who live a more "True North Principal" based life, and who have not let their tolerance meter fly out the window?

Like the great DR Phil once said.... most people are satisfied and happy doing what they do today not because their truly happy, but because its better than what they did in the past.

-Banned Barry

...itchy trigger finger v. non-productive post

Be advised, the safest place to vent is the Rubber Room

Would you like this Thread moved to the Rubber Room, or keep it here if everyone continues to mind their manners?

[kimmiejs]

No I do not believe it is possible for a person to love their job every day. It is possible to love your job and have days that you would rather forget happened.

I will not lie, ever since I became a mother I would rather stay at home with my children. I never thought I would feel this way but I do. I am a nurse, that is who I am, a part of me. I can not picture doing anything else in life nor do I want to.

No I do not blindly follow MD orders in the great abyss. I have a mind of my own. As a RN it is my job to question MD orders that have the capacity to endanger the life of my patient. As a RN I am my patient's and their family members advocate.

Enjoy the quotes. I feel that they are very fitting for this subject. These quotes speak volumes for many of us in the nursing profession. Happiness is not something that you can measure, it is something from within a person.

Cheers

Buddha:
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

Francoise de Motteville:
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

George Sand:
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

James M. Barrie:
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves

HH the Dalai Lama:
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.


Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Allan K. Chalmers:
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Anne Frank:
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Aristotle:
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Bertrand Russell:
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Edward de Bono:
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.