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    Dull, irritating, and you spend most of your life doing it.
    Posted on 19 March 2008 by Roly Walter

    Yes, it's Work.

    Check out the BBC's Grumpy Guide To Work: Open iPlayer

    All kinds of topics get put through the mangle in rather hilarious fashion: management speak, appraisals, making up CVs, team bonding days, how to behave in an interview. All this wisdom is brought to you by Mariella Frostrup, Alvin Hall, Stuart Maconie and so on, all with the dry commentary of Geoffrey Palmer.

    Essential viewing for anyone needing some HR detox. Ultimately all the commentators come to the same view: you work because you have to.

    What do you think?


    Enjoying your job: too good to be true?

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    Amy said...
    Work is work, whether you love it or not. You could spend your whole life searching for the holy grail of the job you love, never to find it.

    Not sure that the 'work-home' definition cracks it. Work is still something that you choose to do rather than doing other things, home or otherwise.

    I think you're right that its about how you frame it. My old boss said to me once "It's not about finding a balance, but managing the imbalance".
    28/04/2008 21:47:00
    Nick said...
    The key is to work hard to find the job you love. Then it doesn't feel like work at all.

    Easily said of course.....

    Part of the problem is the way in which this whole debate about work is framed. For as long as people keep banging on about 'work-life' balance we're going to be in trouble. Work is part of life, like it or not. To try to treat the two as separate is bound to end in tears.

    Maybe 'work-home' balance is more like it?
    26/03/2008 23:40:44
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