I woke up every morning at around 5:30am to 6:00am. After
stretching a bit of my body, got up on bed then go to the bathroom to pee and
wash my face. I then go to the kitchen for some hot coffee or boiled tee or
herbs, while drinking, waiting for customer –my neighborhood with small eatery,
who comes every morning w/ coconut fruit for grating. I happened to have a
coconut grater which my father built a couple of years ago, w/ a motor out of
old washing machine and wooden braces fabricated to make an improvised coconut
grater. After grating the coconut and get paid and give back to them for
cooking. Then I will take my breakfast and take a bath and get ready for work.
A sample of coconut grater
Usually from 7:00am to 7:15am I must leave and take the road
or else I’ll be late for work in cases where my motorcycle, a Susuki Shogun
125, got flat tire on the way and taking it into a vulcanizing shop takes a lot
a time like 15 to 20 minutes before my tire get fixed. I always arrive at work
early to have enough time to prepare for my daily task.
Office work is from 8:00am to 12:00am, break time 12:00nn to
1:00pm, then 1:00pm to 5:00pm for afternoon work hours, with 15mins coffee
break on morning and afternoon schedule. My work includes the safekeeping and
maintaining the tools and equipment used by our maintenance workers. At the
start of day is the releasing of materials and tools to be used in different
works for maintaining the facilities of our company. There’s also computer
works and paper works I usually do for reports and monitoring of stocks and
supplies. During idle times, I go to the stockrooms to arrange and organize
those newly purchased materials and put them into the right place for me to
easily locate them in times they are needed and to monitor their inventory
levels easily.
Every day, weeks, months, and so on and so forth, you do the
same task, same routine, daily. Everyone is some kind of boring in this daily life.
So what’s the best thing to do during your day offs and holidays? Have time for
yourself, your family! Try some of these suggestions I think will make your
life more different and healthy:
picture courtesy of www.albertsons.com
1. Take a vacation
Get the advantage of having holidays
because it’s the best time to take your loved ones to some place far from your
vicinity. These will make your mind free from your work. On the way there, you
and your family members will talk about each others status in life, problems (well, its normal that everyone has a problem),
success stories and some things you wouldn’t think you
will know. Surprised? Well, life really is
full of surprises.. mind that.
2. Make a bonding moment
Daily when you got home, everybody has its
own world, has its own life inside the house. Your wife’s in the kitchen doing
some chores, your tots playing outside, and your teens with their gadgets you
can barely talk to them because of their headset on while talking, chatting
with somebody else. Thanks to your dog who barked and hugged at you as you opened the gate getting
in. Why don't you try talking to them while having your dinner, watch TV or movies together
with popcorn and some soda. Go to church during Sundays and take a stroll in
the park after worship. Try cracking some jokes, or make magic tricks to your
children. These will make them think and broaden their minds and they will love mind boggling puzzles.
3. Treat yourself
On the way home you see ads in the
billboard alongside of the roads and buildings. Your favorite basketball player
wearing a nice looking basketball shoes. Did you get the idea? Sometimes you
have to treat yourself, buy a pair of shoes (don’t bother about the one on the ads, I assure you, it’s very
expensive, buy only what suits your budget), or jeans, or shirt, or buy
some food and eat alone on park bench or breakwater on sea shores.
4. Get physical
Challenge yourself and try different things
you do not normally do, or things you really don’t do or hate to do. If you
barely go out and stay indoors watching soccer or basketball, why not try
playing the actual basketball? Or boxing? Or running? If you’re a rockstar and
you love loud and extreme underground sound, try playing flute or violin or
melodica. You love action and sci-fi movies, try drama and comedy, or suspense
thriller. If you’re a book reader and you love novels of Tom Clancy and JK
Rowling, try reading a bible.
Working is part of our life, and whether we like it or not,
for me, it’s not a choice. It is needed by everyone to have their careers in
life more progressive. I myself have a lot of working experience in different
companies and I see to myself whether I should stay or should I go. The more
you are happy in your work, the more productive and effective you are to the
company, and that’s where you get more rewards and recognition, where it boosts
you up and makes you a better person.
