Wednesday, August 23, 2006
All Work, No Play
Tinawagan ako ni Adrian Ayalin kahapon asking kung totoo nga bang sinabi ni Che-Che Lazaro sa kanyang Broadcast Journalism Class na “No story is worth your life.” Sabi ko I don’t remember Ma’am Che-Che saying that and that I took her Advance Directing Class, not Broad Journ. Anyway, hindi ko na inalam kung ano ‘yung dahilan ni Adrian asking. Siguro iba-blog niya, or naisip niya dahil a colleague of his, Hazel Receta of ABC-5, passed away recently while covering the Mayon beat.
As an Entertainment TV Writer, hindi naman talaga namimiligro ang buhay ko while on duty unlike my reporter friends. Pero kung totoo man na sinabi ‘yun ni Che-Che Lazaro, then we ought to heed her words. No story – no work for that matter – is worth out lives. Napakarami nang pelikula na nag-e-emphasize niyan (the last one I could think of is “Click”) pero parang taliwas naman ang actions natin dito dahil na rin taliwas d’yan ang kinagisnan nating sistema ng trabaho. A majority of us are stuck in the system where we devote a great part of waking hours at work. “No man ever said in his deathbed I wish I spent more time in the office” pero mukhang ganyan naman ang mangyayari sa atin.
I count myself among the lucky few who don’t get stuck in the office for most of my day. Ang pinakangarag ko lang na araw ay Sunday – for the live shows SOP and SFiles. The rest of the week, meeting-meeting na lang ako at konting sulat which doesn’t feel much like work since I don’t have to do it in the office. Puwede ko siyang gawin habang nasa mall o nasa bahay.
So tigilan na natin ang pagiging adik sa trabaho. It’s time we re-think our interpretation of good work ethic. After all, karamihan ng mga taong kilala ko na sobrang magtrabaho sobra rin naman ang reklamo sa kanilang trabaho, sa kanilang kumpanya, sa kanilang boss, sa kanilang mga katrabaho, sa kanilang suweldo… Ako, happy lang because I don’t immerse myself too much. People shouldn’t be forced to be in the office eight hours everyday kahit wala na silang gagawin. People perform better if they are given more lee-way with their time, allowed to do other things they really enjoy.
Well, siguro nga pinagtatanggol ko lang ang aking katamaran kasi naniniwala ako sa sinabi ni Eddie Garcia when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gawad Urian, “At the end of the day, it’s just a job.”
As an Entertainment TV Writer, hindi naman talaga namimiligro ang buhay ko while on duty unlike my reporter friends. Pero kung totoo man na sinabi ‘yun ni Che-Che Lazaro, then we ought to heed her words. No story – no work for that matter – is worth out lives. Napakarami nang pelikula na nag-e-emphasize niyan (the last one I could think of is “Click”) pero parang taliwas naman ang actions natin dito dahil na rin taliwas d’yan ang kinagisnan nating sistema ng trabaho. A majority of us are stuck in the system where we devote a great part of waking hours at work. “No man ever said in his deathbed I wish I spent more time in the office” pero mukhang ganyan naman ang mangyayari sa atin.
I count myself among the lucky few who don’t get stuck in the office for most of my day. Ang pinakangarag ko lang na araw ay Sunday – for the live shows SOP and SFiles. The rest of the week, meeting-meeting na lang ako at konting sulat which doesn’t feel much like work since I don’t have to do it in the office. Puwede ko siyang gawin habang nasa mall o nasa bahay.
So tigilan na natin ang pagiging adik sa trabaho. It’s time we re-think our interpretation of good work ethic. After all, karamihan ng mga taong kilala ko na sobrang magtrabaho sobra rin naman ang reklamo sa kanilang trabaho, sa kanilang kumpanya, sa kanilang boss, sa kanilang mga katrabaho, sa kanilang suweldo… Ako, happy lang because I don’t immerse myself too much. People shouldn’t be forced to be in the office eight hours everyday kahit wala na silang gagawin. People perform better if they are given more lee-way with their time, allowed to do other things they really enjoy.
Well, siguro nga pinagtatanggol ko lang ang aking katamaran kasi naniniwala ako sa sinabi ni Eddie Garcia when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gawad Urian, “At the end of the day, it’s just a job.”
# posted by rey agapay @ 3:00 AM 
