button by button, spleen by spleen“I miss seeing people every day or people other than my kids in the rear-view mirror when I drop them off at school. I miss drinking coffee that I didn’t have to make myself. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I miss commuting a little.” --Joe Dubois, Medium, on being asked why he wanted to get a job even if he does have a kind of a job staying at home.
I just have to note this down. Not that I have anything against working from home as much as there's equally nothing wrong working outside home. It's just that Joe said it so nicely. Although not the entirety, it’s how I would have wanted to answer when bombarded with questions again and again like why I decided to work outside home.
And I agree with what popmatters.com wrote in its last paragraph.
To better understand, sometimes we need to think of work as something more than just a means to earn money. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter much if we’re overpaid or underpaid, or whether we're notable or unacknowledged, because almost all the time in work is where we find more of ourselves in relation to others. And that kind of matters.
2 comments:
i really don't know what i miss about working outside the comforts of home... but yes, it's more of how we are to others and how we are with ourselves sans other people. i wonder how i will be when thrown into the work jungle again... basin mohilak lang ko ug kalit! LOL!
hahaha! you'll do just fine mam oi. ikaw pa. =)
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