Let's have some fun.

Let's have some fun. You don't hear that as the first words from most people, do you? Turns out more and more that's my POV for projects, challenges, and even jobs. I realized in college, as a resident advisor, that you should view your job as a game (I was trying to catch the residents who kept propping the security door open so they could sneak a smoke.... and thus endangering us all to being mauled by a polar bear who got terribly lost due to climate change and made it down to Southwest Virginia, wandered onto campus, and nosed its way into an all girls Dorm). If you view your job as a game, the workplace politics just seem like one move of a chess piece, that when you have a victory you don't rub it in to the losers because you know they could topple your Jenga pieces next round, and that you take setbacks more gracefully because it taught you something about how the game was played...and revealed some of your opponents strategy in the process! As a sustainability person working in Corporate America, it feels like every day is a game. Budgets are held back for years for Electric Vehicle charging stations, someone sabotaged the paper recycling bin with coffee grounds, or a boss in your new department returns the desktop paper recycler you assembled for them to you with a note that "he's not one of those recyclers". What do you do? I say game on. I'm Green Heeled, and it's just the first move in a longer, more interesting, fun game. After all, if you're not having fun, why do it?