🧶 Believe in your craft

Book of TREE 2.96

When you are an employee or running a service business, you don’t necessarily get to choose what you work on. It may be bland. It may be stupid. It may not be completely aligned with your values. There are no perfect jobs.

What do you do?

You could complain. You could phone it in. You could make the whole project a misery.

Or you could get your head down, focus on your craft, turn out best work that the situation allows, and learn something you can apply to the next project. Find the joy in putting your skills to work, no matter the job at hand. Getting paid to do a thing you are good at is a privilege.

Obviously, you stay on the right side of the law and within your ethical bounds. If you’re a heating engineer and someone asks you to build a gas chamber— Well, you know when to say no. But there’s nothing wrong with a bit of a mercenary attitude toward your work.

Believe in your craft. Bring your best to every project, even the not so good ones. It will make you happier. It will make the world a better place (if only marginally). It will open doors of opportunity to do what you really want to do.

The unique understated drumming. The weird violinning.

Grow slowly
Jeff