A Word From Sarah Dellaquila-Day #5 Winner!!!
Work is one of the most abstract concepts among friends. Even the word "work" can mean different things depending on the context. It could be reffering to physical labor, your occupation, a creation such as someone's piece of art "work", or in physics work equals the equation F * d * cos O (O is theta) where F = force, d = displacement, and the angle (theta) is defined as the angle between the force and the displacement vector.
This came up a few nights ago by a group of friends who have known each other for quite some time. We talked about what we imagine our friend's workplace looks like. Sometimes it was close, sometimes it was way off.
I'm at work writing this, it's possible you're at work reading this, but where is THAT? We all spend a large percentage of our time, away from friends, family, and of course pets,at "work". I believe you can only really get to understand someone after you have met their family or visited the place they grew up. Well what about work? Shouldn't that count?
To me talking about the weather is either a last resort to avoid awkward silence or its a desperate attempt to continue a conversation that has clearly lost momentum. Asking someone you just met what they do is similar. Sure it gives you an idea of what they are possibly interested in, but alot of times people have jobs they don't like so that they are able to do what they actually enjoy doing in life.
I happen to love my job and I realize its possible I will not find another secular job that I like as must as this one, but if I told you I work at a company that has a new technology for breast cancer detection........what do you do with that? The solution is.........well, I don't really have one. But I'll tell you this much, I want a picture of where my friends work. I want to know what the world where your work personality lives looks like.
So the next time someone asks you what you do for work give them a good description. Consider answering this way and filling in the italics as it pertains to you:
I work (as little as possible, part-time, full-time) in a/an (office,warehouse,school,library, basement, graveyard) for a company that (sells lollipops, makes pork rinds, has a new technology for lactose intolerance). The people I work with are (great, busy, talk too much, work with me over the internet, are midgets). I (love, like, hate) my job because it (is boring, lets me read blogs all day, too routine, changes constantly, gives me a discount on pickles). What I'd really like to do is (train whales, open my own cafe, surf, start a sky writing company).
We'll all be better friends for it!
So here's a quiz, not necessarily about Sarah, but it's by Sarah so it's gonna be good! With the list of 10 facts below, try to guess which are true and which are false!
1. A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.
2. Brain waves can be used to run an electric train.
3. A one minute kiss burns 26 calories.
4. A duck can't walk without bobbing it's head.
5. Twinkle Twinkle Little Start was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.
6. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
7. The first country to use postcards was Austria.
8. Eleven of the fifty U.S. states are named after an actual person.
9. The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.
10. Thailand means "Land of the Free".
2. Brain waves can be used to run an electric train.
3. A one minute kiss burns 26 calories.
4. A duck can't walk without bobbing it's head.
5. Twinkle Twinkle Little Start was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.
6. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
7. The first country to use postcards was Austria.
8. Eleven of the fifty U.S. states are named after an actual person.
9. The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.
10. Thailand means "Land of the Free".
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