Life only provides two choices: loves work or complains every day. If you can not love the job, then we will only get "5-ng": ngeluh, ngedumel, ngegosip, grumble, and ngeyel. Have a problem with morale? Do not be upset, you are not alone. Many others have similar problems. However, it is not no solution !, Almost everyone has experienced passion work sag. "It's commonplace," says Jansen Sinamo, a human resources development expert from the Darma Mahardika Institute, Jakarta. Although commonplace, "impotence" work must be treated.
The best way to deal with it, according to Jansen, by directly fix the base of the problem, namely the motivation of work. That is the root that forms the work ethic. Systematically, Jansen mapped work motivation into a concept he called the "Eight Professional Working Ethos". Since 1999, he has been actively campaigning for the idea through various trainings.
Whatever our job, whether the businessman, the office clerk, the unskilled laborer, is the grace of GOD. The grace we receive unconditionally, as well as inhaling oxygen and air at no cost a dime.
The talent and intelligence that enable us to work is a gift. By working, every young date we receive a salary to meet the needs of everyday life. By working we have many friends and acquaintances, have the opportunity to add knowledge and insight, and much more. All that grace to be grateful. It's too much for us to respond to all that favors by working reluctantly.
Whatever our job, clerk, civil servant, or member of the House, all is a mandate. The clerk gets the trust from the shopkeeper. Civil servants receive trust from the state. Members of the House of Representatives receive the mandate from the people. This ethos allows us to work wholeheartedly and away from reprehensible acts, such as corruption in its various forms.
Whatever our profession, nurse, teacher, writer, all is darma. Like darma Yudhisthira to defend the Pandavas. A nurse shoulder darma to help the sick. A teacher carries darma to spread knowledge to his disciples. A writer bears darma to disseminate information about the truth to society. If a job or profession is recognized as a call, we can say to ourselves, "I'm doing my best!" That way we will not feel satisfied if our work is not good quality.
Whatever our work, doctors, accountants, lawyers, are all forms of self-actualization. Although sometimes we get tired, work remains the best way to develop our potential and make us feel "there". Anyway busy working much more fun than sitting blankly without pekenjaan.
Naturally, self-actualization is part of the human psychosocial needs. By working, for example, one can shake hands with confidence when meeting his colleagues. "Introduce, my name is Miftah, from Bank Kemilau." Cool, right?
Regardless of our religion or belief, all halal jobs are worship. This awareness in turn will make us able to work sincerely, not for the sake of making money or position alone. Jansen quotes an ancient Greek story like this:
A pole sculptor spent months to carve a tall pole top. Because of the height, the carving can not be seen directly by the person standing beside the pole. People ask, why bother making beautiful carvings in unseen places? He replied, "People can not enjoy it, but God can see it." His work motivation has turned into a transcendental motivation.
Whatever our work, even a researcher, is all art. This awareness will make us work with enjoy just like doing hobby. Jansen cited Edward V Appleton, a Nobel Prize physicist. He confessed, the secret of his success earned the most prestigious science award is because he can enjoy his job.
"The enthusiasm has made me able to work for months in a lonely laboratory," he said.
So, again, all work is art. Even scientists as serious as Einstein also mentions the phenomenal formula of physics with beautiful adjectives.
No matter what our work is, it is an honor. If you can keep your honor well, then another greater honor will come to us.
Jansen takes the example of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's work ethic. This veteran Indonesian writer continues to work (writing), though he is isolated on the restricted island of Buru.
To him, writing is an honor. As a result, we have understood. All his novels became world-class literary works.
Whatever our job, the merchant, the police, even the lighthouse keeper, can all be interpreted as devotion to others.
In the middle of the twentieth century in France, an old man lives alone because he is left dead by his wife and child. For most people, a life like the one he experienced may just mean waiting for death. But for him, no. He went to the valley of Cavennen, a deserted area. While shepherding the sheep, she picked up the oak, then planted it along the valley. No one paid for it. No one praised him. When he died at the age of 89, he had left an incredible heritage, a jungle of 11 km! The rivers flowed again. The land that was barren became fertile. All of that was enjoyed by someone he did not know.
In Indonesia a similar spirit of work can be met at Mak Eroh who divides the hill to drain the water to the paddy fields in his village in Tasikmalaya, West Java. Also at the late Munir, a powerful Kontras activist defended the interests of the persecuted.
"Man was created by the Almighty with the desire to do good," said Jansen. In his Ethos21, he mentions the term rahmatan lii alamin (grace for others).
Choose love or disappointment.
According to Jansen, the eight working ethos he originally stemmed from spiritual emotional intelligence. He assures, all ethos concepts that can be applied in all jobs.
"As long as the work is lawful," he said. "Generally, people work it is only for nyari salary, whereas the work has many sides," he said.
Work is not just for feeding, but also for meaning. On average we spend 30-40 years to work. After that retire, then seniors, and return to GOD's day. "Humans are creatures of meaning, we have to think, why spend forty years working, that's a very long time," he added.
There are two simple rules for us to be enthusiastic about work. First, look for work that fits your interests and talents. That way, work will be felt as a fun activity.
If the first rule we can not get, use the second rule: we must learn to love work. Sometimes we can not love the job because it has not mendalaminya correctly. "We have to learn to love what we have with all the shortcomings," said the ITB Physics graduate who prefers the world of human resources training.
Life only provides two choices: loves work or complains every day. If you can not love the job, then we will only get "5-ng": ngeluh, ngedumel, ngegosip, grumble, and ngeyel. Jansen quotes German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "It's not doing the thing we like, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life happy."
"In life, sometimes we have to do many things that we do not like but we have no choice but it is impossible for us to enjoy the fish, we should be willing to meet the thorns," said the man who is often referred to as the Teacher of Ethos this.
In the world of work, thorns can appear in various forms. A small salary, an unpleasant companion, a less empathic boss, and more. However, instead of here we will be forged to be more resilient.
Not workaholics
In the work ethos affairs, the Indonesian nation has long been known to have a poor work ethic.
In colonial times, the Dutch people referred to us as mocking, in a lazy lander. This is different from, for example, the Japanese-owned Samurai ethos. They are renowned as a hard-working and tenacious nation.
However, Jansen asserted, hard workers are completely different from workaholic. Hard workers can limit themselves, and know when it's time to take time out of work. While a workaholic does. In Jansen's view, pleasant working conditions are working with all parties. Not just subordinates, but also boss.
Often a boss expects his subordinates to work hard, while he himself inadvertently does something that fills the subordinate morale. Jansen gave an example, a critic who merely criticizes his subordinates for making a mistake, but never praises him for his performance.
Humanely it will cause subordinates to lose their spirit of work. Why work hard, anyway his work will not be appreciated. Remember, humans basically like rewards.
Konosuke Matsushita, founder of the company Matsushita Electric Industrial (MET) has a good example. In the era of the world recession of 1929s, Japan's economic growth anjiok sharp. Many companies lay off employees. MAY was forced to cut production by half. However, Matsushita ensures no employee will be laid off.
Instead, he invites all employees to work hard. Production employees are trained to sell. The result is really ordinary. They can turn into a powerful marketing force, which makes Matsushita one of the strongest companies in Japan.