Making Work Happy

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  gemcity06/05/08 Report as spam
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  happiness

  happiness is a shallow and mostly misunderstood and misused word. while externals may affect your happiness, happiness itself comes from within. you don't go to work to be made happy. however, it is nice to believe that work can be enjoyable, challenging, productive, useful...etc... and if any or all of these things apply to the work environment, one may find a level of happiness rising within themselves...primarily because they feel good about themselves, there is less stress, less fear, less apprehension and so on....happiness...a little shallow and often fleeting...now joy...contentment...sense of selfworth...satisfaction...now these words have substance and can certainly be the fertile soil out of which happiness can grow.

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  Michael Fitzgerald06/05/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Making Work Happy

  I don't think happiness is shallow at all. I think work can be satisfying and so on, and probably should be meaningful to a worker, rather than a miserable experience, or even a mundane one. There's nothing wrong with being happy about work, either. But as you say, that probably comes from choosing or finding a job that maps with what brings you happiness, not from actions within the workplace designed to make you feel happy.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Michael