I was skimming the RSS feed for one of my favorite blogs, Slashfood, and came across this post that is basically a rant on Starbucks customers by a barista.
Note: this guy's post is ridiculously profane, and coming from someone that grew up around the construction business, you can take that for what it's worth!
It's somewhat amusing, but two things struck me about this:
1. He doesn't really mention the customer that insists on ordering multiple deviations from a normal drink. Bob Sutton, author of "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge asshole.
I wonder if Starbucks baristas hear it so much that they're completely desensitized to it?
2. It's obvious to me that this guy really, really hates his job and needs to find a new profession.
Which got me thinking...why continue to toil away in a job that you hate? Sure, we all need to pay the rent and put food on the table, but what we do for most of our waking hours really defines who we are as a person. Ever been around a person who clearly hates their job...I mean really hates it? Invariably they're in need of an outlet to vent their frustration, and it just winds up sucking all of the fun out of the room. I know this because I have been that person in the past.
Something to think about today: Do you love your job, or just not hate it? If you won the lottery tomorrow, and you had the financial freedom to do what you wanted to do, what would you do?
Personally, I love to cook. I'm not that great at it, but I can hold my own in the kitchen I suppose. I've often thought that if I were in that position, I would immediately enroll in cooking school and set out to become a professional chef. But what if the part that I love about cooking is really just the 2-3 hour creative release that it gives me each day? If I came to see cooking as just my job, with all of the trappings of a typical J-O-B, would I begin to resent it, in effect losing something that I used to really enjoy?
This is why I don't play the lottery...
