Mistakes and Lessons - Side Quests Are Good

So I woke up this morning and was somewhat not looking forward to it. It happens to be one of the days that I'm scheduled to work. I currently have a job that I don't particularly like, I'm working for Bond University as a caller for their Annual Fund Campaign. Something that I've noticed is that an unfulfilling job really drains all the creativity and motivation out of a person. I don't hate work, but it's not something that I enjoy doing. There are other reasons why I'm doing the job, but the main reason is money.

Which lead me to reflect on the last couple of weeks. Those last couple of weeks have honestly been pretty unproductive and it's really been annoying me. So today, I got up a little earlier and decided to work on my blog a bit. Although, honestly I'm writing this blog mainly for myself rather than for anyone else to read, I decided that if you're going to do something, you might as well do it well. So I played around with some of the other  functions and settings of my blog to see what would happen.

After playing around with the blog a bit, I realized that I could link it to my Facebook and Google+ as well as some other cool things with comments. After playing around with my blog, Facebook and Google+ for a while, I realized I had learnt quite a bit. I had forgotten that sense of creativity, discovery and especially enjoyment that you can have while doing something new.

I realized that working on your own little projects outside of work is really quite rewarding. It seems like as long as you put effort into doing something on the side, it will pay off rewards. Just me spending a little bit of time on this blog, I'm starting to learn more about the web, how things work, how things connect. This experience and knowledge may not be something that I regularly rely on, but it's something that I now have and may use in the future. I then thought back of all the times when I got really excited and worked on something, I had gotten something positive out of each experience. Even my teenage days playing Yugioh and Pokemon cards helped me learn game culture dynamics which I applied to building of the Bond Casual Gaming Society.

I suppose what I'm ultimately trying to say is don't let work drain all your energy, keep some to work on something you are personally interested in and enjoy, the rewards are definitely there.

PS. I found it really quite hard to keep this post short. There's so much related stuff to talk about such as improving life skills, moving forward in your career and achieving something great. Sorry if it seems like I didn't fully flesh out the topic, it's definitely something we'll come back to another day.