What I've Learned From Stress On Fridays

October 10, 2008 - 6:34am by Thomas

Be patient, be patient, for when stressed out on Friday there is always 5:00pm (or whatever your quitting time is).  Friday teaches us it is okay to stop when stressed out.  We've never failed at our jobs when we come back in on Monday.  Sometimes a pause lets us get rid of our bad attitudes or lets us recooperate after a long week.

Make some notes.  Drop your pen.  Put away your computer.  And enjoy yourself!

As part of the HigherCallings blog network, I have been made keen to what others are doing in the blogosphere concerning work and faith.  This week Robert Hruzek of Middle Zone Musings is leading a series on What I've Learned From Stress.  It's kind of like a synchroblog of sorts.  If you blog, feel free to join in too.  I have decided to write a post on each day and how stress relates to it.  

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Submitted by Robert Hruzek (not verified) on October 10, 2008 - 9:09am.

Wow, Thomas; I can feel myself relaxing already!

Thanks for contributing so many entries to our project. Hope to see you next time, too.

Cheers!

Submitted by Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk (not verified) on October 13, 2008 - 5:00pm.

I knew as a child I wanted a job that I loved, and I worked hard to get there. I worry that you don't seem to love yours. What exactly do you do? Why is there a disconnect between your job and the rest of your life?

Submitted by Thomas on October 14, 2008 - 7:31am.

Well, I don't like my job but I don't dislike it either.  I try not to find my identity in my job and do it because a) I have made a committment to it, b) it pays bills, c) the company directly and indirectly helps me to achieve my life goals.

I work in business ethics on independence issues.  This is far from the "other" life I have as a last semester graduate student in English literature.  I try hard not to disconnect work and life, though I often do.  The two worlds merge more than one would think.  A Marxist interpretation of literature takes on a whole new meaning when you are seeing how businesses and capitalism functions on an intimate level every day. I have been able to bring a greater joy to the workplace with an "aesthetic" that is gleaned from years of reading the best of the world's literature.

The whole point of my blog's name, Everyday Liturgy, is to make every day a worshipful experience, to redeem the time, all the time, for God and his glory.  I labor on, knowing full well that, just as you said, I will work hard to get to a job that I love.  I am just in the "working on it" stage right now.