Stop being “Professional”
Afternoon Tea by her- August 6th, 2022
Have you ever felt that everything you’ve done so far could have been kind of a waste of time?
Each of us may sometimes feel confused, hopeless, or desperate and I’m not even talking about having big dreams or being a full-time passionate member of society.
I talk about those very normal moments of our everyday life.
Working in many different corporate and non-corporate working environments has given me a clear image of how it feels to be in “the trap”. Just like some others. The trap of seeing yourself as a miniature element of a big system that cares about nobody but the profit… I know. I heard that a lot. Even sometimes I tend to be one.
But as long as I get more experienced, I see a wrong pattern is happening to trap me in this malicious loop.
Well, let’s take a breath together because I’m not even in the mood to argue how dutiful we should appear at work and try hard to please our superiors (while listening to Tchaikovsky and drinking my beloved Earl Gray with fig marmalade…). I’m definitely not here to give you a speech.
I think the most misunderstood word in our modern life is ” Professionalism”.
Let me tell you why.
Every time you appear on time at work, deliver the project contents before the deadline, or try so hard to be a very very good team player, think of someone suddenly stepping inside and telling you:” your company is going to be vanished from the whole universe in one year like it never existed so that you will be jobless by the end of the year.”
Would you still operate the same as usual?
Well… I have thought about that, and believe me or not I still have serious concerns about it, and every time I find myself confused. One day, I was there, feeling hopeless and watching everything I made with hard work collapsing in a glimpse of the eye, so it made me think of who I’m really working for. Is it my job (even my most hated ones)? My superiors? My future? Or is it just me trying subconsciously to push my boundaries and trying so hard not to disappoint myself?
In my case; the “doing wrong my tasks and being embarrassed about why I’m not using my full capabilities” situation made me think that I’m not angry with no one but myself.
And it opened up the doors of realities to me…
The more I tried and the more I failed, I saw myself eventually making plans to do better.
I now am quite sure that everything I do is actually going to benefit me one day because I’m doing them for nobody but all the passion, hope, or even greed lying somewhere in my mind.
The fact is professionalism means the great responsibility you have toward your goals unless it’s such a big messy gesture, and everybody I mean everyone will intuitively feel that something is lacking. Everyone would know.
So if you have bad news for me today…
“I’m here to work my … off regardless of what’s at the end of my journey.
All of the good manners I mentioned above are excellent traits of a Professional and it doesn’t even matter if you are an employee, student, freelance, or manager/entrepreneur. You could be anyone with responsibility and have to be professional accordingly.
But it does matter where this professionalism is directed to.
