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(3020, 1, '2010-10-06 10:50:51', '2010-10-06 02:50:51', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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(3021, 1, '2010-10-06 10:51:35', '2010-10-06 02:51:35', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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(3022, 1, '2010-10-06 10:57:53', '2010-10-06 02:57:53', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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(3024, 1, '2010-10-06 11:06:36', '2010-10-06 03:06:36', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Shipping Details\">Shipping Details</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Shipping Within Metro Manila\">Shipping Within Metro Manila $20.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Shipping Within the Philippines\">Shipping Within the Philippines $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n</center>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. 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If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Shipping Details\">Shipping Details</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Shipping Within Metro Manila\">Shipping Within Metro Manila $20.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Shipping Within the Philippines\">Shipping Within the Philippines $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</form>\r\n</center>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" />\r\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\" />\r\n<input name=\"currency_code\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"USD\" />\r\n<input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" />\r\n<img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><input name=\"on0\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"Shipping Details\" />Shipping Details</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><select name=\"os0\"> <option value=\"Shipping Within Metro Manila\">Shipping Within Metro Manila $20.00</option> <option value=\"Shipping Within the Philippines\">Shipping Within the Philippines $17.00</option> <option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option> </select></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</form>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. 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No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><center><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Shipping Details\">Shipping Details</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Shipping Within Metro Manila\">Shipping Within Metro Manila $20.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Shipping Within the Philippines\">Shipping Within the Philippines $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr></center>\r\n</table>\r\n</form>\r\n</center>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. 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(3045, 1, '2010-10-06 11:38:55', '2010-10-06 03:38:55', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. 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It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Our goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Obviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Finally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>As a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" />\r\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\" />\r\n<input name=\"currency_code\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"USD\" />\r\n<input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" />\r\n<img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><input name=\"on0\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"Shipping Details\" />Shipping Details</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><select name=\"os0\"> <option value=\"Shipping Within Metro Manila\">Shipping Within Metro Manila $20.00</option> <option value=\"Shipping Within the Philippines\">Shipping Within the Philippines $17.00</option> <option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option> </select></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</form></center><br>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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(3040, 1, '2010-10-06 11:33:12', '2010-10-06 03:33:12', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"\" <a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" />\r\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\" />\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><input name=\"on0\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\" />Delivery Charges May Apply</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><select name=\"os0\"> <option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option> <option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option> <option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option> </select></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<input name=\"currency_code\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"USD\" />\r\n<input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" />\r\n<img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />\r\n</form>[/caption]\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Our goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Obviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Finally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>As a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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(3029, 1, '2010-10-06 11:11:31', '2010-10-06 03:11:31', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" />\r\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\" />\r\n<input name=\"currency_code\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"USD\" />\r\n<input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" />\r\n<img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />\r\n<center><table>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><input name=\"on0\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"Shipping Details\" />Shipping Details</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><select name=\"os0\"> <option value=\"Shipping Within Metro Manila\">Shipping Within Metro Manila $20.00</option> <option value=\"Shipping Within the Philippines\">Shipping Within the Philippines $17.00</option> <option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option> </select></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table></center>\r\n</form></center><br>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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(3039, 1, '2010-10-06 11:31:54', '2010-10-06 03:31:54', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\"<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a> <form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<center><table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table></center>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. 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(3030, 1, '2010-10-06 11:12:36', '2010-10-06 03:12:36', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Shipping Details\">Shipping Details</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Shipping Within Metro Manila\">Shipping Within Metro Manila $20.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Shipping Within the Philippines\">Shipping Within the Philippines $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n</center><br>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. 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If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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(3032, 1, '2010-10-06 11:26:47', '2010-10-06 03:26:47', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. 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If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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(3033, 1, '2010-10-06 11:27:22', '2010-10-06 03:27:22', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<div><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></div>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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(3035, 1, '2010-10-06 11:28:39', '2010-10-06 03:28:39', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption] <form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n<div><center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center></div>\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a> <form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. 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No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. 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(3037, 1, '2010-10-06 11:30:20', '2010-10-06 03:30:20', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a> <form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. 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(3038, 1, '2010-10-06 11:31:01', '2010-10-06 03:31:01', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Shipping fee may apply...\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a> <form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<center><table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges May Apply\">Delivery Charges May Apply</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table></center>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. 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(3042, 1, '2010-10-06 11:35:16', '2010-10-06 03:35:16', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\">Delivery Charges</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Our goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Obviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Finally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>As a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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(3041, 1, '2010-10-06 11:34:30', '2010-10-06 03:34:30', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<div><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\">Delivery Charges</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></div>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Our goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Obviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Finally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>As a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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(3043, 1, '2010-10-06 11:36:12', '2010-10-06 03:36:12', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\">Delivery Charges</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Our goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Obviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Finally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>As a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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(3044, 1, '2010-10-06 11:37:02', '2010-10-06 03:37:02', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\">Delivery Charges</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within Metro Manila\">With Shipping Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"With Shipping Within the Philippines\">With Shipping Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Our goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Obviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Finally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>As a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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(3046, 1, '2010-10-06 11:39:44', '2010-10-06 03:39:44', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\">Delivery Charges</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Our goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Obviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Finally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>As a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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(3047, 1, '2010-10-06 11:40:46', '2010-10-06 03:40:46', 'If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Our goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Obviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>Finally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>As a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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It is at the forefront of providing remarkable and truly motivational keynote speeches and welcome remarks on various corporate events such as annual conferences, sales conventions, and product launchings. Every year, we give an average of 30 major speeches touching at least than 80,000 entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, supervisors, career personnel, freelancers, and students.\r\n[hr]\r\n<h3><strong>PROLIFIC FILIPINO AUTHOR, WRITER.</strong></h3>We write and publish books and publications on career, business, and personal development. As of 2012, we have written eight (8) books that have changed the lives of those who read them. We release an average of two (2) new titles every year.\r\n[hr]\r\n<h3><strong>PROLIFIC FILIPINO AUTHOR, WRITER.</strong></h3>We write and publish books and publications on career, business, and personal development. As of 2012, we have written eight (8) books that have changed the lives of those who read them. 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(3067, 1, '2010-10-06 13:32:18', '2010-10-06 05:32:18', '<hr />\n<h2>New: Why Am I Working?</h2>\nThis book is about understanding the value of what you do so you\'ll never hate your job—or your boss—ever again! It\'s a 156-page book in paperback that is first published on in September 2010.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2995\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"For only $15 (plus shipping if needed).\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/featured-why-am-i-working.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2995\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/featured-why-am-i-working-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>\n<div><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" /> <input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\" /> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />\n</form></div>\n[/caption]\n\nIn this book, I explained the thin line between job and work, which can help a person understand that job is only a part of work—that job is between a person and his boss while work is between the person and the people he’s able to help through his company.\n\nAlso, the book encourages every working person to learn and rediscover their real value and start managing their perceived value. I believe that by recognizing our real individual value, we can contribute even more. I also give the readers my account on taking his job as either a cross that he carries everyday or a car that he uses to reach his destination.\n\nThe book can help your company specifically to minimize or eliminate the spread of gossip, blame game, backstabbing, turf war, miscommunication, misunderstanding, abuse of privileges and authority, anger, hate, sadness, jealousy, and power tripping among others. The book contains different ways and approaches, tips and techniques, advice and suggestions on how to love one’s work so they can start producing amazing results.', 'Why Am I Working? Book', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '3009-autosave', '', '', '2010-10-06 13:32:18', '2010-10-06 05:32:18', '', 3009, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/3009-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4633, 1, '2012-03-25 10:58:29', '2012-03-25 02:58:29', '[hr]\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Motivate the world.</strong></h2>\r\n[quote]We are a group passionate individuals who\'d like to help people create miracles in their own lives...[/quote]\r\n\r\n[hr]\r\n\r\n[twocol_one]<center><img src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lloydluna-blog-logo.png\"></center>[quote]Our corporate logo: It\'s not only double letter \"L\" for Lloyd Luna. Our logo is our message: \"Love for Learning. Learn from Life. Live for others\" it is also two open books that creates two arrows that say, \"This way!\"[/quote]\r\n \r\n[/twocol_one]\r\n \r\n[twocol_one_last]\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>THE BUSINESS OF HELPING PEOPLE.</strong></h3>Started in 2005, after a painful rejection of his manuscript from publishing companies, business evangelist and motivational speaker Lloyd Luna, created a brand that inspires and empowers the people—students, businessmen, parents, teachers, and government employees, among many others.\r\n\r\nFrom a simple publishing outfit, the company has grown to a full-service consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs, business leaders, and political figures in the areas of human resource development, personal achievement, career improvement, internet marketing, sales, corporate imaging, and personal branding, and political strategy.\r\n\r\nLLOYDLUNA is known as one of the best motivational speakers in the Philippines and Asia. Every year, the company speaks to more than half a million people on career, business, and personal development. As of 2010, the company has written and published five best-selling books.\r\n\r\n[button color=\"red\" link=\"http://lloydluna.com/feedback\"]View testimonials[/button]\r\n \r\n[/twocol_one_last]\r\n\r\n[hr]\r\n\r\n[twocol_one][quote]Books that can change your life...[/quote]\r\n \r\n[/twocol_one]\r\n \r\n[twocol_one_last]\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>LLOYDLUNA PUBLISHING.</strong></h3>As of 2010, the company has written and published five best-selling books namely <a href=\"http://isthereajobwaitingforyou.com\" target=\"blank\">Is There A Job Waiting For You?</a>, <a href=\"http://theobviousreasonsforsuccess.com\" target=\"blank\">The Obvious Reasons for Success</a>, <a href=\"http://theinternetmarketinghandbook.net\" target=\"blank\">The Internet Marketing Handbook</a>, <a href=\"http://whyamiworking.net\" target=\"blank\">Why Am I Working?</a> and <a href=\"http://alphabetofachievement.com\" target=\"blank\">Alphabet of Achievement</a>.\r\n\r\n[button color=\"red\" link=\"http://lloydluna.com/feedback\"]View testimonials[/button]\r\n \r\n[/twocol_one_last]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[hr]\r\n<form style=\"border:1px solid #ccc;padding:15px;text-align:center;background: #F2F2F2\" action=\"http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify\" method=\"post\" target=\"popupwindow\" onsubmit=\"window.open(\'http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=lloydluna\', \'popupwindow\', \'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520\');return true\"><h3>Enter your email address to get an <strong>Exclusive VIP Access</strong> to our coaching program.</h3><input type=\"text\" style=\"width:180px\" name=\"email\"/><input type=\"hidden\" value=\"lloydluna\" name=\"uri\"/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"loc\" value=\"en_US\"/><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" /><i> Check your email and click the confirmation link, OK? :-)</i></form></center>', 'Who we are, what we do, why and how we do it...', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '3707-revision-18', '', '', '2012-03-25 10:58:29', '2012-03-25 02:58:29', '', 3707, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/3707-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3069, 1, '2010-10-06 12:39:29', '2010-10-06 04:39:29', '<hr><h2>New: Why Am I Working?</h2>\r\nThis book is about understanding the value of what you do so you\'ll never hate your job—or your boss—ever again! It\'s a 156-page book in paperback that is first published on in September 2010.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2995\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"For only $15 (plus shipping if needed).\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/featured-why-am-i-working.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2995\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/featured-why-am-i-working-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a><div><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></div>\r\n[/caption]\r\n\r\nIn this book, I explained the thin line between job and work, which can help a person understand that job is only a part of work—that job is between a person and his boss while work is between the person and the people he’s able to help through his company.\r\n\r\nAlso, the book encourages every working person to learn and rediscover their real value and start managing their perceived value. I believe that by recognizing our real individual value, we can contribute even more. I also give the readers my account on taking his job as either a cross that he carries everyday or a car that he uses to reach his destination.\r\n\r\nThe book can help your company specifically to minimize or eliminate the spread of gossip, blame game, backstabbing, turf war, miscommunication, misunderstanding, abuse of privileges and authority, anger, hate, sadness, jealousy, and power tripping among others. The book contains different ways and approaches, tips and techniques, advice and suggestions on how to love one’s work so they can start producing amazing results.', 'Why Am I Working? Book', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '3009-revision-4', '', '', '2010-10-06 12:39:29', '2010-10-06 04:39:29', '', 3009, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/3009-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3070, 1, '2010-10-06 13:39:14', '2010-10-06 05:39:14', '<hr><h2>New: Why Am I Working?</h2>If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work?\r\n\r\nNow, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. Luna\r\nSeptember 1, 2010\r\nMakati City, Philippines\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>', 'Why Am I Working?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2800-revision-39', '', '', '2010-10-06 11:42:37', '2010-10-06 03:42:37', '', 2800, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/2800-revision-39/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3074, 1, '2010-10-06 14:07:05', '2010-10-06 06:07:05', '<hr>If there’s one question that could very well start this book, it would be this: Do you love your work? Now, that question’s kind of heavy, isn’t it? It is perhaps too big for an opening statement, so you might think you didn’t get the question right. Let me repeat it then:\r\n\r\n“Do you love your work?”\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2993\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\"]<a href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" src=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/featured-why-am-i-working1-300x260.png\" alt=\"Why Am I Working? book by Lloyd Luna\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Book Price + Delivery Charge</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy do I ask? It’s because everything that you are becoming every day, everything that you do every moment of your working hours, and probably everything that you think about most of the time, has everything to do with your life as a whole.\r\n\r\nSimply put, even if that question sounds seemingly easy, it’s a powerful key to finally putting to rest every agony, sorrow, and disappointment you have inside you that probably makes you hate either your job or your boss.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to answer that question with a “yes” or a “no,” let me ask you this follow-up question: “Why are you working?”\r\n\r\nSeemingly, that’s an easy question, too. When I ran a short survey on Facebook, in fact, there was no question at all about the answers. It was all about money, livelihood, satisfaction, the absence of choice, fate, and many more. The sentiments were all the same. In sum, we all work for either money or fulfillment or for a combination of both.\r\n\r\nBut of course, one other fact has remained the same as it was thousands of years ago: We all need to work. Even company owners need to work. More often than not, they even work three or four times harder than their employees. Your bosses will need to work, too. Students will need to study. Parents will need to parent their children.\r\n\r\nEverybody will need to move and do something for as long as they live. Is it a punishment by God that when a certain Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, we all have ended up having to labor to live?\r\n\r\nWell, whether the story is true or not and whatever the answer to that question, the fact is we are all working and we will need to continue to do so to live.\r\n\r\nThis is why I wrote this book. If we don’t have any option but to work for a living, how should we look at our work? If there’s nothing else we can do but to work for a living, how should we respond to this reality? If we could never ever escape a “working” life, then how should we position ourselves in the workplace?\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\n\r\nOur goal here is to understand the real meaning of what we do so we can liberate ourselves from anxiety, from pain, and from frustration due to our poor understanding of our job or of our work. Without expanding our thinking on this very important matter, our limited knowledge can do us more harm than good.\r\n\r\nThis is why some people get sick. It’s not only because of the polluted air or water. It’s also because of our polluted working environment and polluted mindsets. Imagine some people seeing the person they hate every day and trying to figure out how that person might be fired from the company or praying that soon that person will quit his or her job. And what about corporate politics; hasn’t it been there for centuries? We can take the case, too, of an ugly working relationship between the boss and the employees or of a turf war among company workers.\r\n\r\nThe thing is that the way we deal with every issue will define the way we will live our lives at work and at home. And whoever told you that you can separate your work life from your personal life is totally mistaken. It’s simply impossible to do so.\r\n\r\nEverything must have a connection and a relation. That’s why a bad-hair day that started from home can become an entire bad-hair day at work and vice versa.\r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to find a work-life balance, if ever there’s such a thing. Honestly, I believe that work is life itself. That being the case, I don’t think we should even make an effort to balance work and life. It just won’t make any sense. Life, to my mind, can’t be taken away from anything that we do. Life is embedded in every form of labor that we do, every emotion that we feel, every decision that we make.\r\n\r\nLife is what happens.\r\n\r\nAccepting several mysteries at work and at home will make your life easier. That’s what this book is also about. In the following pages, we’re going to find that there’s only a thin line between job and work. We need to learn that difference between the two so we can make informed decisions and sound judgment on what we do.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nObviously, we shouldn’t ask this question: “Are you jobbing?” It’s as misdirected as this question: “Are you working occasionally at separate short jobs?” That’s how Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “jobbing,” which is chiefly British usage.\r\n\r\nSo, is there a distinct difference between job and work? You’ll find the answer in this book.\r\n\r\nEvery workplace has its own norms, culture, and traditions. If you’re a newcomer particularly in a big company, it would take time to realize that you’re expected to move in a certain way under certain circumstances. Obviously, there are structures and rules that you’ll need to follow should you want to keep your job. If you’ve been a longtime employee, having worked for, say, 10 years or more since the company’s founding, then it’s likely that you yourself was part of the pioneering group that developed those structures and rules.\r\n\r\nHow do you understand the corporate culture? Is it even necessary for you to know and observe its norms? How do you capitalize on them? Is it possible to benefit from the existing corporate culture? Who’s making up the company’s “generally accepted standards”?\r\n\r\nThere are always some intractable issues in every organization—gossip, backstabbing, jealousy, mudslinging, blame games, and a thousand and one others. No matter how often you attend or are sent to seminars, conferences, conventions, or trainings, those issues are almost impossible to resolve. But why is it that we are unable to resolve these issues using the principles we’ve learned from our values education in primary and secondary school?\r\n\r\nCompanies spend a lot of time and money on training. Is this the solution to those corporate issues or does the spending only end up making employees even more adept in engaging in these issues? As an individual, is it that hard to do good than to do bad? Or is this the very reason why, consciously or not, we do bad things?\r\n\r\nIn this book, we will cover these issues and take up some suggested solutions so you need not waste your time and energy in trying to beat the system. Afterwards, perhaps you can even draw your own system and game plan to make the existing system obsolete. When this happens, you’ll become the driver of your own career.\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nFinally, in the last chapter, I’ll invite you to move up and raise your own bar. Being an employee doesn’t mean being lowly. It doesn’t mean that someone else owns you and that you’ll have to follow everything you are told to do. If what you do is getting in the way of your personal philosophy and judgment, you always have a choice to pick another journey.\r\n\r\nBeing an employee doesn’t mean that you always have to get a little and your bosses will have too much. It doesn’t take away your right to be happy. Your being a worker doesn’t restrict you from exercising your free will or the freedom to choose and decide for yourself. It is therefore wrong to say, “I have no choice.”\r\n\r\nAs an employee, you are duty-bound to follow certain set procedures. But it shouldn’t restrain you from growing. I think growth is a very important parcel of happiness, too. If you’re no longer growing and the environment you’re working in no longer provides you room for development, it’s time to get out of your post.\r\n\r\n\r\n<center><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"V9SFVZVQTK2VY\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Delivery Charges\"><center><strong>Delivery Charges</strong></center></td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"Pick Up\">Pick Up $15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within Metro Manila\">Within Metro Manila $17.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"Within the Philippines\">Within the Philippines $20.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG_global.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form></center>\r\n\r\nAs a worker, though, you’ll get every opportunity to make your life better every day. This is true for everyone. But not everyone can recognize this opportunity, and that recognition often spells the difference between success and failure. To succeed, you should learn to either recognize an opportunity or create one for yourself.\r\n\r\nLastly, I’ve always been a fan of personal development. I believe that the only way to succeed is to beat every opponent along your way. But by “opponent” here I mean your thinking, your choices, and your actions. Beating these opponents means challenging yourself to continuously improve and do a little bit more—every day.\r\n\r\nOne thing more: I’d like to confess that I’ve always been an employee. And my love for my work and my commitment to my God-given talent have always employed and empowered me to work for yet another day. But for how long? Oh, yes, for as long as I live.\r\n\r\nLloyd A. 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