‘Monday doesn't suck, your job does.’

I saw an internet meme as follows: ‘Monday doesn't suck, your job does.’ It makes sense, but I think it has to do with more than just the job. Every job comes with downsides. As a matter of fact, work in general is not easy. But if yours is such that the minute you start the week, you can’t wait for Friday, huh, something isn’t right.

Granted, when you aren’t truly smitten with what you do, it naturally wouldn’t seem worthwhile, the size of your pay envelope regardless. But if you love what you do, and the pay is decent, and coming to work still irks, check your work environment. It affects a lot. 

Swear down, even the Jesus Christ of Matthew 5:39 will run short of stamina for a place where people crave admiration and lack empathy, where one is vilified on Monday, dignified on Tuesday, isolated or put through the silent treatment on Wednesday, praised in absolutely positive terms on Thursday, gets one’s name blackened on a Friday morning, and by noon, the same person’s wished a nice weekend.

Tell me, how can one love a Monday when one works under such toxic selfishness and subtle manipulation - you know, with narcissists who want to remain faultless that anything that goes bad at work, including their fault, is made to look as if someone else’s, eh? 

My boy’s a barber – possibly not so gainful. But he’s the happiest I’ve ever seen, because his work environment’s so not stiff, so steady, and so accommodating that he feels so secure. But that's why he cannot but love what he does, and so much that he’d put off a needed Sunday outing to innovate or copy a certain haircut that he saw on a magazine cover.