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FINDING ENJOYMENT IN YOUR JOB

Pramod Batra


If you are a good person you will enjoy your job, whatever it may be. It is not a job which gives enjoyment but the attitude towards your job which gives enjoyment. Enjoyment has nothing to do with how big or important your job is. A peon may be enjoying his job more than the president, and peons do! There are no secrets about it. Look at your job positively.

Look for good things in it. Quit the faultfinding for now. Instead, find out what you can do to remove the faults. Get involved in improving things. It takes time to do or get things done. For example, in my assignment at Escorts Heart Institute, removal of garbage gave me a lot of enjoyment! It was like this.

The architects had made a 20X15 foot room – centrally air conditioned – to store garbage. Garbage came in one way and it went out the other way, through a shutter door. Whenever the in-door was opened to put garbage in, a foul smell went out into the ducting system. And whenever the shutter was opened to remove and load the garbage, thousands of flies would come in.
Also, it bothered me – I did not have an AC in my house while the garbage sat in air conditioned comfort!

This design was okay for the USA, but not for India. We visited large hotels and hospitals and studied their garbage disposal systems. Soon we were able to work out the arrangements under which a party gave us Rs.6000 per month to clear our garbage every four hours. Our garbage bags are sent directly to a garbage room made in a corner, from which it is removed in a rickshaw. The contractor has developed a system under which it is recycled! Good for everyone, is it not?

I am proud of the garbage room, with it’s tiled walls Kota stone flooring and no flies. In this way, I enjoy my job. Almost 30 years ago I learnt my lessons. I had returned from the USA after my MBA. I was to look after spare parts. It involved, among other things, getting wooden packing cases. I found out that we were getting 12 foot wooden logs to make small, small boxes. Believing in the IBM words “Think…there must be a better way,” I called in the supplier to suggest ways to reduce cost. The owner came and saw our requirements. He suggested we buy shorter sleepers to save on costs, because the longer the wood, the more costly it is. Logical! But no one told me till I asked the supplier.

I got the bug to save costs, and happened to visit our plants in Faridabad. There I found that a lot of wooden packing cases from Poland were being sold as scrap. Then followed more thinking, more talking, and we became bania, “Scotch”, “Jews” – not only did we start reusing that wood, but we even reused the nails – after getting them straightened!
We even soaked straightened nails in water buckets to make them rusty so that they would hold better when nailed! I can go on and on…

What I want to say is: there is no dirty job, there is no bad boss, there is no indifferent company once you decide that you want to enjoy your job. During my more than 30 years career, wherever I went, I found small, small ways in which I could be part of a team to make improvements.

Please remember that everyone is not destined to do great things (like J.R.D. Tata, M.S. Oberoi or H.P. Nanda), but each of us can do small things greatly. You and I can’t come up with breakthroughs, but we can surely make improvements. Even if you move your filing cabinet 3 feet away, and it improves looks or productivity, you have done your bit and after doing something like this a few more times, you will start enjoying your job. Believe me, there is no other way.
I repeat that it is our attitude to the job that makes all the difference. If ever I get posted to the Lodhi Road cremation ground, I am sure I will find ways to enjoy my job! Remember Raja Harishchandra, who even at the cremation ground did his job so well that he is still remembered today. (He insisted on charging a fee from his own wife for cremating his own son.) You don’t even have to be 33% of Raja Harishchandra to start enjoying your job. And I am sure you have a better job to do than his.

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