Where did we lose our motivation?
We as a nation, have lost it one by one. Like a disease.
I look at my BBM list, my Whatsapp list, my Facebook, my Twitter and there are endless status's along the lines of:
Back to work :(
I hate work
I don't want to go to work tomorrow
Etc etc
Is there anyone left who enjoys what they do?
Is there anyone out there doing the job of there dreams?
I'm not only talking about the hundreds of Kuwaiti's with government desk jobs that have nothing to do at work everyday but file their nails, read magazines and gossip. I'm not talking about the hundreds of malingerers that pass through our clinic doors everyday seeking sick leaves.
I'm also talking about people like me. Educated people who continued their education to be in the jobs they're in now. Those graduating top of their class, those who made a choice to be doctors, engineers, lawyers, pharamacists, teachers and so on.
Why is going to work such a chore? Why don't we try to enjoy it, try to make a difference. Try to put on a big smile and achieve what this country invested in us to do?
My father in law said something today that really made me sad. We were talking about how tomorrow all the government employees will be coming to the clinics asking for 3 day sick leaves to prolong the Eid holiday till next Sunday, in Kuwaiti: "yshikonha ma3a iljaza" . He reminded us of an old play called "3zoobi ilSalmiya" that was first playing in 1985. One of the characters played by Mohammed AlMansour, was a Kuwaiti doctor who worked in a polyclinic (m9taw9ef). In one of the scenes the doctor states that the only purpose of doctors is to give sick leaves "maratheyat". Yes even back then.
And now 25 years later, this mentally has only worsened to spread to the whole workforce and rubbing off on school going children as well.
Oh Kuwait, Oh Kuwaitis, where will we be in another 25 years?
I just pray to God over and over again to wake up loving my job again.
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9 minutes ago
Yes Im bored at work ... Routine kills :(
ReplyDeleteThats why i made this little workshop last weekend for my cousins and my friends. we all sat down and i told them to write on a paper what they really wanted to do in their lives (Goals). It was really hard for us to even think of those goals and write them.
Next weekend we are planning to write action steps for those plans enshallah.
I really felt much better after writing some of my goals, Maybe because i felt that there is so much time and i shouldn't be bored at all.
lets see
yep, i seriously need to be motivated after graduating high school !
ReplyDeleteI think its society. Society doesn’t motive a person and we as a whole aren’t very impressed with some one who sweats over there work. No one is motivated because no one is doing the motivating. It seems like in Kuwait no one cares. All Kuwaiti people seem to care about are trends and even those trends aren’t even helping the Kuwaiti economy, there helping foreign economies. Kuwait needs a reality check before its too late.
ReplyDeleteI admit that my job is boring too, mainly cuz i'm in the wrong place. I hav hopes that once i do manage to get into the field i want, i will start to enjoy wat i do. In the meantime, i shud try my best to make the most out of wat i hav, cuz in the end its ur attitude about wat u do that matters the most.. no matter wat u do.
ReplyDeleteThis is the thing with my job situation: I work at an ad agency where the hours are from 9-6. Needless to say, there aren't a lot of Kuwaitis there (only 2) because of the work hours.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the bosses are constantly asking for Kuwaiti recruits. Two things wrong with this: a) The aforementioned hours b) Because there are no Kuwaitis, they skimp on the stuff that Kuwaitis benefit from.
The above scenario makes Kuwaitis feel like outcasts. I work in Lebanon, not Kuwait.