Fujiko Suda: Worklife

Changing Style

Apr 20, 2003 02:11 am / 2 comments

Thanks to Rudolf, I have been able to access some very inter­est­ing blog sites. One of them was Gloass­dog, and not only is it a great read, it offers some help in html writ­ing to begin­ners like me. I want to make my site more pre­sentable, so I have been work­ing at it for the past four hours, but wasn’t suc­cess­ful in chang­ing the mar­gin or col­ors. Ah, well, I’ll get it right. Soon, I hope!

Okay, that’s one way of chang­ing style. But I am think­ing some­thing even more pro­found, like chang­ing the style of daily life.

Last year, I was go, go, go. Things hap­pened in pos­i­tive ways, and they hap­pened pretty smooth and easy. Talk­ing about work. I was hav­ing so much fun, I hardly ever felt tired working.

Then sev­eral months ago, I just felt tired, tired, tired. I kept on look­ing for the rea­son why I got into such rut. Is it my feel­ing bad about my old­est son’s cur­rent sit­u­a­tion? Is it menopause? Is it because the work is on plateau, and I have become a junky to new! fun! excit­ing! stuff?

I’ve been strug­gling with what­ever I have been going through, but I guess in my strug­gle, progress was happening.

Because I am finally learn­ing to work, do tedius admin­is­tra­tive type of work at the office. I am learn­ing to uti­lize day­time to work. (Okay, I’m up real late again tonight. But this isn’t work.) I’m fol­low­ing through with the stuff I was doing last year, which is vital in mak­ing real progress, not just skim­ming the surface.

Maybe doing “work” hasn’t changed, but my atti­tude and daily sched­ule have.

Work dur­ing “work hours”. Spend time on pri­vate stuff dur­ing night time and week­ends. How nor­mal! I’m so proud of myself for some­how stum­bling into this solu­tion. And now I can see things from the per­spec­tive of major­ity of office work­ers: how to make the most out of day­time work hours. More impor­tantly, I have gained an insight into how peo­ple change, and their work­styles are chang­ing at dif­fer­ent speed. This is the heart of cur­rent theme every­where in cre­at­ing work­place that is effective.

I’m lucky. Where I work, although HR and admin depart­ments’ offi­cial pol­icy isn’t with it like maybe some other com­pa­nies, but my boss gives us long, long leash. And our work­place is flex­i­ble that I can choose how I want to set up my work area. We can do any­thing we want based on our annual agree­ment on achiev­ing the goals and objec­tives. So last year, when not at clients’ place, I got a lot of work done at home after the kids went to sleep. When at the office, I hung out, mostly talk­ing with col­leagues. Now I changed gear, I’ll go into the office to do cre­ation work, not just to com­mu­ni­cate and exchange infor­ma­tion. Mind you, this is so rare in Japan. Ah, but you should have seen the <a href=http://blog.neoteny.com/wyuki/archives/004963.html”>rainbow I saw in Yoko­hama Sat­ur­day evening! I almost didn’t go out cycling. Didn’t feel up to it. But I had to, because oth­er­wise, I would have hated myself for just con­tin­u­ing to lash out on my hus­band. And there it was, a huge arch of rain­bow, dou­ble rain­bow in fact, in east­ern sky as the sun was set­ting. It was the first time I have ever wit­nessed such awsome phe­nom­e­nan, appear­ance of rain­bow from the start to the end when it all faded away. It was 30 min­utes of thrilling experience.

A quote from Pamela McCarthy’s website:

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