I was giving a friend a ride to work this morning and he commented that I was the only one on the ferry that morning who said "Going to work, I'm stoked!" when asked the usual what-are-you-doing-today question. He asked what makes work so good for me......
The flexibility to set my own schedule is a big one. Knowing that if I have an errand to run I don't need to squish it into my hour or half hour lunch break, that if I want to have a long breakfast with my kid I can come in at 10:00 and no one will tell me I'm late, that on a nice afternoon I can leave early to go for a climb or ride.
Another big one is having projects that challenge me. The one that I'm working on now is a source of positive stress - learning about the chemical nature of different contaminants than I'm used to working with and managing $150K of someone else's money.
So in the words of a random Irish surfer in a movie I saw.... "It's the stoke. It's all about the stoke".
The flexibility to set my own schedule is a big one. Knowing that if I have an errand to run I don't need to squish it into my hour or half hour lunch break, that if I want to have a long breakfast with my kid I can come in at 10:00 and no one will tell me I'm late, that on a nice afternoon I can leave early to go for a climb or ride.
Another big one is having projects that challenge me. The one that I'm working on now is a source of positive stress - learning about the chemical nature of different contaminants than I'm used to working with and managing $150K of someone else's money.
So in the words of a random Irish surfer in a movie I saw.... "It's the stoke. It's all about the stoke".
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