If you have cheerfully looked at this heading and a surprised look has appeared on your face, if you have no idea where more fun lives except your working place, well, do not close this page, but bookmark it for the further look.
Whether it seasonable or appearing at the second phase of the long-term project, can be quickly cured with an extra day off or requires drastic measures, sooner or later it comes to steal our fun at work and replace it with anything from a sad look and boredom to quick thoughts of suicide.
When the job sucks, when “fuck‘, “fucking‘”, “damn” are just the very words to describe your tasks, (unless you can’t express anything without them – hm!, it’s ok if you are an IT expert with at least 3-year experience), it’s time to start getting fun at work.
“What shall I do?”, “Where is my enthusiasm?” have occurred my mind recently. My favourite writing tasks, my beloved ability to convert words into clear sentences, skills to structure the text into compelling copy peppered with style and appeal haven’t made me happy any longer. Of course, as a tech writer, having been writing help topics and tutorials on multiple topics from software installation problems to how to brew a cup of tea, the first thing I did was searching for a tutorial to recover my fun. Ok, the web knocked me down with tons of articles, tips, tricks and even books with catchy headings like
- Enjoy!: 101 Ways to Add Fun to Your Work Every Day
- Make Work Fun: 139 Ways to Lighten Up Your Workplace
- 301 ways to get fun at work
“What is the problem?”, you may think, just grab some of such books, wet your finger and turn over the pages full of ways. So I did it. Here are some funny tips that are highly recommended:
- Wear a funny hat or outfit. Try socks of different colors. This tip reinsures that a usual baggy oufit of IT experts can recover the mood of their colleagues.
- Do things backwards. Oh, so that was the answer! Many do, even my boss does, should I at last adopt these practices?
- Change the setting. Get outside! It won’t suit, I’d like to work on the roof of our business center, but it’s not permitted
- Play a practical joke on your coworkers. Aha, this suits me perfectly. But those geeks are all about joking, I can’t compete with them. But I’ll start on Monday.
- Bring an extra dessert for your boss. Hm! I should think about this.
- Don’t wear any underwear. Who knows how it helps…
- Wash a co-worker’s car during your lunch. Yeah, my car is round the corner. Please, wash it by 6.00 p.m.
- Do your boss’s or co-worker’s most hated task. Let me do one that is mine.
- Come up with a wild idea for the advertising department even if you aren’t in their department. I wonder whether it helps my boss who follows this advice.
- Flirt with a co-worker who won’t tell the HR manager. …?
It’s up to you what tips to follow (try to wash a boss’s car or do hated tasks backwards:), but hunter for the opportunities that your job (whatever hateful it is) can generate for you.
Remember the words of Thomas Alva Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Number 10 is such a “Only for women” thingy