Being a workaholic or being a manager... These two concepts sometimes go into each other. You may perceive staying at the job and dealing with every detail personally as management. You may believe that being a manager prevents you from taking a vacation. Even if you are on vacation, you can leave your phone number for your employees to reach you. If they don't call you, you will definitely call them. You think things won't work out without you.
Now, I would like to tell you about the holiday memory of a workaholic friend of told me.
A Workaholic's Vacation Adventure
I couldn't stand the insistence of both my boss and my friends that I should take a vacation, claiming that I was too tired, and I decided to go on vacation.
On Friday, I gathered all my staff and gave a speech to them. They certainly knew what had to be done, but I found it useful to remind everything once again. Once again, I explained the concepts of urgent and important, the difference between the two, and told them to call me if they were in any dilemma. Even though they told me that everything would be fine and that they would get things done easily, I had a feeling that something would go wrong. Still, I managed to convince myself that giving them the opportunity to work without me for a while would be an opportunity to gauge their decision-making skills.
When my wife and I arrived at the resort on Saturday, I wasn't thinking much about work, my main goal was to get away from work and take the opportunity to rest. I should not forget this main purpose of mine. After a good sleep, I went to the beach and sunbathed, trying not to think about anything.
I spent Sunday again, lying on the beach, enjoying the sun and the sea. How tidy they had put the straw umbrellas on the beach, but some of them were worn out. I should have reported this to the hotel reception in the evening. Due to the large number of people attending the dinner, long queues were formed. However, they could have prevented them, this problem could have been easily solved by putting the food types on separate counters and with a few extra staff. If this problem continues tomorrow, I decided to convey my solution suggestions to the hotel management.
On Monday, I woke up with a different excitement inside me. At my workplace, everyone started working, but I was having fun here. My wife seemed to understand what was going through my mind from my eyes and my awkward state. He criticized me for not giving enough time on vacation and asked me to forget about work and focus on vacation. My wife was not wrong because my mind was really on my work. He took me by the hand and led me to the beach and persuaded me to participate in childish events with a few people there. These silly activities were annoying, but I pretended to have fun so as not to offend my wife. Then, I lay on the beach and read a book and spent the rest of the day trying to enjoy the holiday.
On Tuesday, I couldn't take it anymore. After breakfast, I went to the beach with my wife again, but my mind was always on my work. I told my wife that something I ate hurt my stomach and left and went back to my room, and I immediately called the workplace and got detailed information about how things were going.
Even though the employees said that everything went well, I was not sure about it, so I made an effort to learn all the details. When my wife returned to the room, I had already asked all the questions and managed to get the answers I wanted, and I had finished supervising the employees.
The next two days I spent the same way over the phone auditing the business. On the one hand, I was enjoying the sea and the sun, and on the other hand, I was supervising the works by phone. In fact, since I learned that an important meeting was going to be held on Friday, I made phone calls both before and after the meeting, without my wife noticing, to make sure that everything went well.
A week later, I finished my vacation and went back to work. My colleagues said that the vacation was good for me and that I looked very good. I had the pleasure of both taking a vacation and managing the business. Thus, while making my wife happy, I did not compromise my job.
Being a workaholic doesn't seem like fun at all, does it?
Before I worked a lot, I didn't rest and I didn't have time for myself or to go out, I just worked and worked. Of course I loved my work, how beautiful it is to teach music to people who want to learn, but many times I felt bad when someone despised my work, or criticized that I did not go out to enjoy ... But my work for I had fun, I shared work with other people and we made good music, it was not annoying, if it is a bit tiring to be teaching all day and every day, but I enjoyed it.
When I stopped working I realized that I had a lot of free time and that I did not know what to do with it, before I only worked and now I have a lot of free time that I feel like it flies by. It's not bad that you like working so much, but sometimes it's good to rest and have other things on your mind, like watching a movie or going for a walk to the beach.