Ants Marching

I sometimes wonder how funny it is the work routine that we do everyday, especially for the white collars workers. Most of us have pretty much the same routine , wake up..take a bath..put on a nice shirt, pants or trousers, dark socks (for men), and polished shoes. Some put on ties, depending on their attire rules at the office.

We leave the house..we go to our office which is usually in a skyscrapper or at least in a medium rise building. We punch the clock and then we proceed to sit in our cubicle or our room (if you are a manager) with air conditioners.

We turn on our computers. Check our emails, replying them or sending new emails and then we start doing our main job, whether it is translating documents, making reports, making analysis, updating databases, answering customer's queries, communicating with suppliers etc. Basically we do most of our work on the computer and on the desk.

Most of us just stay in front of the computers all day. Well the fortunate ones can alternate their work activities by attending meetings, visiting customers/plants or basically get the chance to get out of the office for a change, but i'm pretty sure that the majority of us do not have the same luxury.

By the time you notice, it's already 5 o'clock, its time to go home and tomorrow, most of us will repeat the same activities again. Oh, at the end of the month we also got paid for doing our work routines at the office for a month.

I sometimes wonder and i found a little bit funny how our daily lives go. We are like a colony of ants. Well at least ants are doing real works, they are truly the true definition of blue collar workers. As for us white collars, sometimes i don't feel like we are doing too many impacts. The blue collars are doing the real physical work, but the white collars are the ones rewarded with big salaries.

But well i guess that's just the way it goes in our society. The white collars are valued more, because we are the ones who do "planning, coordinating, leading, and communicating" in a comfortable environment. Where as the blue collars who do the executions are perceived as second class behind the white collars.

Just my 2 cents...and im not complaining either...just one of my random thoughts of life.