Vacation

If there is one thing I like about working, it is that you can actually get paid without working. Some people call it vacation, or holiday. I like to call it the happy days of a job. Unfortunately you don't get that many happy days a year so you have to be careful how to use them. But for now I'm just relaxing and enjoying my happy days in Portugal. So no fuzz about working, getting up early, being responsible and all that other shit that comes with a job. Nope, it's just relaxation at last ( or as Elmer Fudd would say "wewaxation at wast").
So this will be a short one, because it will also mean that I won't be thinking about things related to work. Just wanted to drop it on the ones that actually read this shit, that me and my mind have taken a holiday.

To study or not to study

In your lifetime you'll always meet interesting and sometimes wise people. Those people might be teaches, counselors, personal coaches or any other random sort of people one meets during their life. Sometimes these people try to help you to reach a higher platform in your life. They encourage you to get the best out of yourself. They do so by sometimes saying that through study one can get better job opportunities and chances. I also had those people in my life, and I still do have them in my life, for which I'm thankfull.
Right now, one of those people encouraged me to follow a study to get better career chances. So I chosed a path for me which will eventually get me to be a pensionplan advisor, hopefully. To get there I have to study, and well, since it's been awhile since I saw a studybook up close, it is pretty difficult to get started again. But I have succeeded in starting, and today I'm going to do the first exam. After that I still will have to do two more exams. So maybe by the end of next year, I'll have done those two exams and I can get started with the beginning of my new career chances.
But why do people say that study is the only way to get ahead in life? Where did they found that sort of wisdom? Was it passed to them by older generations? And if so, where did the whole idea of study start? My best guess would be with the ancient Greeks of Socrates, Plato and Aristoteles. They more or less discovered that by asking questions and learning from their answers they reached a higher level in their life. At that time some questioned their methods, which lead to the death of one of the first philosophers. Nowadays people still questions the ones that seek knowledge, but luckily for them they don't get punished for it. I don't question the seekers of knowledge, since I consider myself to be one of those seekers. I seek knowledge through study, through reading and through the experience of life. One can get to a higher level not just by study, but also by observing the world and all of it's inhabitants. Most helpfull are other people. When observing other people you can learn a great deal, about life, love, happiness, fortune, but also about the misfortune, unhappiness and unlove.
But for now, I'll focuss on my exam and try to get just that little step up to the next level in my life.

It's been awhile

Well my plan to weekly tell something about work, or my own work for that matter, didn't really work. In the end, it was my own work that more or less kept me from typing just another entry to my blog. Luckily for me, I'm sick now with a throat infection. So that gives me a couple of sick days from my work. And thus it gives me an opportunity to type the second entry.

In that last couple of weeks, since I first wrote the blog, I had all sorts of ideas for new ones, about everything and nothing related to work. But most of those ideas pop up in my head while I'm driving to or from my work, and by the time I get home I usually have forgotten them. So maybe I should rethink my plans of writing a blog every week and just write a blog whenever I have time. But I do have to find something to keep those ideas in my head or on a piece of paper so that I can work them out at a later time. But did you ever tried to write something while you're speeding over the highway? I haven't so far, and I don't think I will try it someday. The roads are nowadays way too dangerous to try a stunt like that. Just last week when I went to work, I saw an accident every day at the same spot on the same highway. Most of the accidents were just small crashes, with only the cars being the ones that were injured. Luckily. I remember an accident a few years ago when I saw a car that was under a truck, I mean really under it. The firemen had to cut the people out of the wreckage using some sort of pneumatic scissors. Now those accidents are the scary ones. The ones from last week were just small timers. But I don't think it's such a good plan to try to write something while driving. Maybe a voicerecorder is something that would work, and I can work the spoken thoughts out later when I'm home safely.

First One

Today I started my hopefully weekly blog about work, my work, other work, or just in work in general.
I have been working now for like 6 years in different jobs. Most of them were at offices doing mostly light administrative work. Nowadays I still do administrative work, in a bank. I have this job now for more than two years and it is the first job I have had for so long. The company gave me a car to go to all the places they need me to go. It used to be an Opel Corsa, but in august I received a new one, since the leasecontract had ended on the Opel. Now it's a Renault Clio, the latest model. Nice to drive, you don't really have to work in it, so you can save all your energy for the work that needs to be done on a daily basis.

Sometimes I wonder if it is possible to not work at all. But then I start to ask myself how I can pay the bills that will be stacking up in no time. Life have become expensive to live, so work is a necessarity to try and pay all the bills that come in my mailbox on regular base. I sometimes see homeless people and I wonder if I could ever be like that, without though the usual addiction to booze and drugs. Just be homeless and not have to worry about working all day. Maybe I'm romantising the homeless factor too much, because most of the homeless people I see look, quite frankly, like shit. And I'm a bit of a vein person, I do like to look good for myself and for the people that see me during a day or night.

By the way, the dude on the right is me.