image by steve.grosbois, flickr artist
you work for 32 hours from monday through thursday.  you wake up on friday morning with an extra spring in your step, looking forward to the upcoming weekend.  but today isn’t your ‘normal’ friday; today is different.
instead of working on client deliverables, or manning the grill at a local restaurant, or waiting tables down at the pub, you get 8 hours to do whatever you’d like to do.
what would you do with it?
would you start work on that big idea you’ve always had? Â would you enroll in a culinary course in your area? Â would you learn how to brew your own beer? … or would you play farmville on facebook? Â or sleep in until noon? Â or drink some free cold ones that your friends bring you out back behind the bar?
if you’re an employer, why not give your employees 8 hours a week and see what they do with it? Â trust me, you’ll recognize the ones who are worthwhile and the ones who aren’t very quickly.
then, invest heavily in the ones that are because they’re going to take your organization places. Â they’re natural born world-shakers.
With an extra 32 hours, I would DEFINITELY sleep till noon. That’s because I rarely, if ever, put in only an 8 hour day. I’m always thinking of new work things to do, new ideas, new opportunities where I can help improve things. By the time the weekend rolls around, all I want to do is lay around, and because of that, I feel like I’m missing out on doing so many more productive things outside of work. I’d love to do more work around the house, help out the alumni chapter of my fraternity, visit my family more, etc. but I don’t necessarily have the energy to do all those wonderful things.
spending time with family, volunteering your time outside of the office to help your school or fraternity alumni chapter is, getting housework done — that’s all time well-spent. i think those ambitions alone say something about a person’s character, and that can’t be overlooked either.