When Richard is working, he wants to do it not only
with the sound mind but also with the full heart. When it comes to work,
he has the principle that he follows since he landed on his first job. He
believes that for every work we do, we should put our heart on to get our work
right. Working with heart is completing your work confidently
done. Richard has no worry if he’s not doing it remarkably because
as long as he is within the so called standard and as long as he’s doing it
with his heart, he supposes he will most likely end right. If by the slim
chance he missed it correctly (since
there is no perfect but almost perfect only), Richard will feel sad but not
guilty. This is okay because at the end of the day, you can really say
that you did your job and Richard can sleep confidently that he’d have done
what are his supposed responsibilities.
While it’s very true that there might be mistake on
the finished products or the output we provided, this is normal because
everybody can get mistake and it happens. If you go through the norms,
meaning that you are working without doing shortcuts and yet you found mistake
later, that is fine still because sometimes mistakes are really inevitable to
happen. The important is you did your part and you are doing your job by
heart because when you do your job with heart on, you are giving dignity and
respect to your work. Yes, technically the end product is wrong but the
attitude how you made to complete the job makes the difference. Richard
may have mistakes in the pasts but he doesn’t feel morally down because he
knows he honestly worked hard to complete those jobs. Like he politely
approaches colleagues, fairly worked with or without supervision and even go
through the standard procedures. It is just a matter that sometimes our
best is not enough and for this, Richard’s fault is pardonable and his works
can still say acceptably fine. He’s might technically wrong but his work
attitude is perfectly fine.
It’s professionalism that makes our whole work
fine. Whatever our work is, we should work like a professional. It
doesn’t need to have licensure or need to have prefix title on our name to become
professional. In many ways you can be professional. The way you
speak, your behavior towards your colleagues, and the way you treat your work
are all acts of professionalism. Professionalism is being true and loyal
to our job. You can be a good engineer, a famous architect or an
experienced physician but if the way you treat your job is not according to the
responsibilities you sworn, then you are not really professional. If you
are collecting pay for the job you did not really worked, if you are using the
company’s resources for your personal use, if you are coming late or going home
early, if you are showing favoritism amongst your staff, if you are into
politics – though you may successfully finished your work or no matter what
profession you’ve obtained, at the end of the day you are not really
professional. Professionalism comes when you have integrity in your work
which is all about honesty and attitude.
I found the case of Richard a real good and it turns
me to look at myself and do self-check on my work attitude. I am sailing
on the same boat. For me, no matter how competent, loyal, hardworking and
reliable in his work the man can be, still he cannot be the best employee and
not deserved to promote if that man is deceitful. In the same way a man
who is so punctual and kind but not productive. Cheating, stealing and tricking your company
are not fair. Being honest to your work is an excellent attitude that
tells your upbringing whether on or off work. Someone can have the
excellent work but if it is out of politics, if you’ve got it the unfair way, if
you are not deserved for it, then that is a half cook victory. The end
doesn’t justify the mean. It means to say that it should not be looked at
the result but equally important to consider is the person’s attitude how the
product has come up.
By Alex V. Villamayor
December 30, 2015
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