Running, fighting, breaking...

Wonder why you get tired at the end of a hard day merely sitting in front of a laptop? Well there are the physiological reasons on one side which explain the obvious. But then who likes obvious answers. Consider what we, the modern-day knowledge workers, do all day in our consulting and revolutionary IT endeavors.

For starters we have to break down barriers or walls to engage fruitfully with our ever-changing clients and colleagues.
Then we are perennially chasing deadlines – one after the other after another.
And when we are not chasing something/someone down, we are probably fire-fighting or nailing down issues.
And of course we are always building consensus around something – more often than not its about the next dinner venue. But we still need to build it, right?

With so much running and fighting and breaking and chasing and building, is it a wonder that we are tired by the end of the day? I must say that English language offers so much room for creativity with words that one can easily concoct an illusion of hyper-activity with mere phrases. So next time someone says they are ready to drop-dead by the end of an avg work-day ask them if they have been actually working or indulging in word-play…