It’s back! This year in the weeks leading up to my 25th birthday I will be listing the 24 lessons I learnt at 24 in a series of blogs starting from 12pm today and ending at 12am tonight.
Some seriously adult lessons right now!
- The whole moving house thing is far more convoluted than it should be
I mean my goodness! If finding a house isn’t difficult enough, they certainly manage to over complicate things further by adding in the irritating middle man – that guy you have to speak to, to speak to another guy, so you can tell the person buying your house something. And guess what! The chain then goes back the other way to send the reply… this is ridiculous! Why have we not come up with a better scheme?
- No job is worth breaking your back over
At the end of the day, no one notices, no cares, and it’s not going to make a difference to anything except your mental health, and not in a good way! I had a boss once who said if you couldn’t get work done in your working hours, you weren’t working hard enough. Sometimes, yes, we may need to stay late every now and then but when this becomes a regular thing there’s a bigger issue going on.
I also worked somewhere where people would bitch about people that left on time, as though they had done something wrong by leaving at their contracted time. In a world where it’s all too frequent for companies to be folding and making redundancies, the things that matter most will always be your mental health and well-being, and your friends and family, work should never trump that.
Besides, a good company knows that long working hours simply isn’t sustainable for staff and will care more about their people and their output.
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