Love what you do

It's 9:00 pm on the last flight out of Jomo Kenyatta international airport to Moi international airport and I'm sipping a cold beer at 23,000 feet. The flip side is I have a cold and I have not had a good nights rest in a while. I am sleep deprived and pretty hungry so it's not all rosy up here. That however, isn't why I am writing this. I am writing this because of a totally different reason. I generally don't pay attention to the safety instructions at the beginning of the flight but this time I did. Why do you ask, because of the male flight attendant. Why would a male flight attendant make me concentrate, well it was late at night and he had probably flown back and forth a couple of times but he still entertained us. The guy got up on the P.A system and gave us an audio presentation worthy of a radio talk-show host. He introduced the captain, first officer and all the flight attendants like he was introducing his fellow band mates and it was refreshing. 

I have flown over 4,000 kilometers in the last one week and I ignored every other person on the flights I have been on. This young man who named himself Mr. B(Brian) reminded me of a mantra I repeated but forgotten about in my work. "Love what you do and you will never have to work a day in your life". I was once invited to attend a talk by an IBM executive at Strathmore and I got to rub shoulders with some of the staff over there. These guys were highly skilled programmers and tech guys working in one of the biggest and most successful tech companies in the world, yes I said it Apple. In the middle of a conversation I was having with them I brought up the question of whether they love what they do. I asked them candidly whether they loved what they do and I actually got laughed at. I could be mistaken, maybe there was some spinach in my teeth but what I got for all this is that money trumps how you enjoy your work. Richard Branson is one person who personifies  a person who loves what he does and doesn't let anything get in the way of that. Why can't we be like that, we wake up at the same time every day, to go to the same drab office. We suffer through hours of traffic and other pissed off commuters during ungodly hours and for what. You could be one of those buried under mountains of debt with various dependents and for you I say I know what you are going through and I am sorry for that. Anyways, try and find enjoyment in what you do because with that you will work better and with less stress. 

Going back to Mr. B, Refreshing is an understatement, the passengers actually clapped after the safety introduction.