Working With Good People

I don’t mind reminiscing at all. It has its benefits.

If moving to Stoke-on-Trent twenty years ago was a significant deal for me as a single man, leaving Stoke-on-Trent ten years ago with two very young children and a third child on the way was just as much of a big deal. In fact leaving Stoke-on-Trent was such a big deal that I wrote a series of blogs on the issue.

Living in a new place meant finding work in the new place. I managed to find a new post somewhere not too far from the home. It was a new job in a new location which required a massive learning curve. The new job I had was, fittingly in a new project. There were three other members of the team for the project that operated in a company  building with other projects going on at the same time.

So there are the four of us on this new project. As it turns out the other three are also new to the positions they’re in. Two of them are younger than me by a fair few years, and the third isn’t too far from my age, but he’s very fresh to the industry. So there’s the four of us on this new project.

I could outline a number of things that went wrong with that project. The main memory from that time with the project was being with those three people. They were good people. The working experience was a joy because of those three people.

There’s this word: camaraderie. I am a big fan of that word because of the time I worked with those three people. Can people deal with a variety of challenges and still emerge with their integrity, sense of humour and fun and a greater sense of character? The brief time with those three people proved the answer was yes. all because of the four of us a good team.

Since that brief experience I’ve worked in a number of different setting with a variety of work dynamics. Sometimes on my own, sometimes with one other person, sometimes in an office with people and sometimes in a vast open office setting. There is no perfect setting, but there are factors that can help the working experience be a joy. The most simple aspect of that is just to find good people.

You find those good people and get them working side by side and let the camaraderie develop and you’ll never have to worry about things like productivity and hitting targets. I certainly have benefited greatly from working with good people. It’s something to value and be grateful for because it’s not guaranteed in every walk of working life.

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Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden