WDYDWYD?
Yesterday, I introduced you to Andy Goodman. Today, I want to direct you specifically to his April 2008 newsletter - Why Do You Do What You Do? While there have been several topics that have caught might attention - How High Is My Eye-Q?; Like This, Only Better; Click. Damn. Click. Damn. Click. Goodbye! - and briefly made me think, the April newsletter has stayed with me for a while.
Why do I do what I do? I definitely didn't have an answer when I opened the envelope. I know that I don't do it for the money. I don't do it because it is easy to leave the work at the office. My husband's answer, "For God and Country. Well . . . at least Country." wasn't very helpful. And copying from someone else on the WDYDWYD website seems wrong. For right now, I guess, I do what I do because I've asked to be given work where I could do the most good, and this is where I've ended up.
Through the process, I've realized that having an answer is important. It doesn't necessarily have to be the "right" answer, but on the days when everything goes wrong, you get yelled at and criticized, and your clients are calling repeatedly just to tell you that you're dirt, don't you need to know why you put up with it all?
So, why do you do what you? - K
