Hustling up and Moving Forward
I’ve had a lot of jobs. Not impressive jobs, you know the kind with big titles, business cards and a corner office. No, my assortment of jobs has been everything from a Customer Service Representative to a borderline phone sex operator (that is a WHOLE other entry).
I’ve worked in big offices, small offices, corporate office, stores,
restaurants-and all that I have learned from these experiences is that there are 2 types of people
(at least for the purpose of this particular rambling).
There are creative people and there are corporate people.
Corporate people use words like, “team” and “pipeline” they talk about “hustling up” and “being competitive.” To get a job in a corporate environment you put words on your resume like, “self-starter,” “highly-motivated,” and “team player.” You spend roughly 90% of your time in meetings, planning meetings, having conference calls about meetings and
summarizing meetings you already had. You are on a regular basis reading or composing emails about company policies, procedures and possibly even taking courses on said procedures.
Every few months, possibly even quarterly, you will need to be certified in something. It doesn’t much matter what, but it will be a job requirement that serves no purpose than to allow another person to keep their job creating these processes.
You love Tony Robbins or someone similar and are always looking for ways to move ahead.
You use terms like, “Move Ahead.”
I am not one of these people, I am a creative person. I am not competitive and I never hustle. The quickest way to put my face into a scowl and ensure I do not listen to a thing you say is to sit me in a meeting and start it off with our “Agenda” and then spend an hour discussing what we WILL discuss and ending a meeting summarizing what we JUST discussed.
I believe this is the true definition of insanity.
Creative people possess a completely different kind of insanity, what I like to call a healthy insanity versus the above mentioned bad insanity. We tend to be messy, disorganized and glaze over details like which bank account we paid the mortgage out of but will spend forty five minutes deciding whether our blog color should be CC00099 or CC00097.
We wake up too late to iron our outfit and instead, use Downey Wrinkle Releaser in the car on the way to work.
Creative people own decorative cell phone covers and will make sure the background on our computer/laptop screen is customized before we use it. We will spend 3 hours searching online for the perfect picture to customize our computer/laptop screen with.
We never take work home with us and if we do-it usually stays in the car.
We are the ones with coffee on our shirts and 85 photos on our desk.
We are on Facebook/Twitter/Myspace when we should be working.
So if you are a corporate type-kudos you are disciplined and you are “going places.” (Whatever that means).
And if you are the creative type-you are probably reading this when you should be working.
ooo.. that last line – you totally caught me! this is a wonderful post.. thanks so much for sharing.
LOL thanks so much Ingrid! Wonderful to see you again 🙂