I’ve flipped through my posts and realized that there is no cohesiveness between those and my mission statement: making work fun.

So why do I jump from personal finance to corporate trends to my own philosophical curiosities about work and society? Because in order for work to be fun, we need work to not be work. Obvious but not really.

Why do we work? Why do have to have a job? What is the motivation to go to to school and train for the first quarter of our lives to come out and work? … to get a paycheck. A paycheck is our livelihood, is our bread, our butter, our shelter and thus, work becomes a necessity of life because it is seen as the only source of a paycheck. How then, can something that represents so much responsibility and that encompasses so much pressure, how can work be enjoyable?

Work will never be enjoyable for those who live paycheck to paycheck. Chasing the corporate ladder will never be enjoyable for somebody who values life-balance. Hence, the first step to making work fun is to get your finances in order so that the pressure is alleviated and to do some soul-searching to clarify what lifestyle will make you happy.

For somebody who cherishes life-balance (even though I seem to have an extremely tough time attaining it), the idea that somebody could actually enjoy attacking that corporate ladder is difficult to digest. However, some people actually love it! And kudos to them, the important thing is to identify which group you belong to.

When you have your finances in order and know that there is some security even if that paycheck is absent for a period of time, this allows the ease of mind to brainstorm what you genuinely want to do.

This is how my rants about personal finance, outsourcing and philosophical jabber all come together. More to come. (In continuation of my previous post and the rest of my book reviews)