Take that boring job and make it--fun

As all good and bad self-help books will tell you the best way to be happy is to do what you love. Well, for the authors of those books it may seem to be so in an abstract sort of way, but on the ground, in the every day world most of us live in, that cannot be quite the case.

And yet . . .

If you know that what you are doing today at your job is not just what you are doing today at your job but something more, that you are planning and organizing a new business out of the business you are being allowed to study as you work at this boring job, then you are taking one step out of that life and into a better one.

Each of us who wants to be the master of our own time or at least of how we use the time needs to know a good deal about business. Not because I love business models or think they are so difficult even. But rather it is like writing a book, if you understand how a book is structured, you can write a book based on the ones you study. You can alter anything because you know why that structure is there.

So if you want to be a Bookie and that is what I am talking about, endlessly, it seems, then you have to understand a few things about where you will be doing this type of work, how to make money at it and how to make the best connections possible so that the work continues to grow and evolve.

Where are you working now? Or where were you working? Can you describe how that business made money, how it positioned itself in the world of say fastfood chains? How did it spend the money necessary so people knew about it, how often did it offer something special and when did it do that? These are the bare bones of the business. But if you think about how they went through the year, what kinds of choices were made about personnel, advertising, special deals and to whom, you are beginning to think about that business as a business and not as that place you hate to work.

You can also begin to observe how customers are treated. Who gets the most satisfaction out of dealing with the customers and who does not? What does it take to be in that special place with a customer?

Okay, I think you are beginning to understand that part. Now, the best part, of the people you meet at this job or met at your job, how many of them liked to read or at least liked to talk about the books in the news? If this line of thought is intriguing to you, please come back tomorrow, then I can explain how to take this simplistic construction and apply it to the future, your future as a Bookie.