short note: senior bar w00t!
Empowerment is something that escapes me few years ago. Its difficult for me to grapple with the fact that we want to do something challenging, something that puts us in dangerous situation; dare-deviling in the extream. Until recently.
I realised that empowerment is something very crucial in the development of an individual. Static routine that most of us are accustomed to in work and studies does sounds appealing, where you don't have to meet the unknown and only work with things that you are very familiar with, but routine does one thing to the mind; it dulls them.
I think the primary reason why most people hated their work is the lack of empowerment. I experienced it before, doing the same thing over and over again even with variation in the schedule does irritate me. I asked that maybe its the lack of challenge in the work that I do, but that is certainly out of the question. Then I ask whether it is the people that I'm working with, tempting as that sound, it doesn't really pin point the problem.
Then a few weeks ago I read an article about "putting the fun back in your work life" so to speak, and there came my answer. Boredom is unnecessarily about lack of challenge or bad colleague, it has something to do with lack of responsibility and accountability in your line of work. Take for example, putting your job on the line 24/7 does make you work more vigilantly compared to taking safe 'routes'.
So with empowerment you put yourself and your job more and more on the line. One slip and there it goes. Challenge wise maybe not so, but the implication of a mistake, of a slip is what make it more worth it. Being a leader, taking a responsibility, doing illicit dealings thats what makes a life more so to speak exciting.
