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When it comes to working during the holidays, you can either go two routes: you can either take your lumps and earn money even if you don’t want to or you can go into work and just slouch off because your heart and minds are in another area.
This is especially true in various industries where you are deemed essential workers (transportation, law enforcement, emergency services, hospitality, etc.). You go into your job on a holiday where everybody else is off celebrating the holidays and while you physically have to be there, your heart and minds are not.
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Yesterday, this was demonstrated on two of the three NFL games that were played on Christmas Day. The Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers clearly looked like reindeer in headlights on account that they represent individuals who have to work but don’t want to work. Still, the NFL at least tried to compromise by having them play at their home stadiums, but still, that wasn’t enough.
Now why do I bring this up when the NFL clearly has had teams play on holidays all the time? Well, the fact is that NFL players and coaches are represented as essential employees in terms of providing entertainment for those who want to put their worries on pause so we can go play. It’s never easy, but we have to make a living even if things don’t go our way the way we want it to.
Just seeing superstar players like Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Brock Purdy struggle made me think of times where I had to work on Sundays during the early years of my retail career when I didn’t really want to. You are forced into a situation you don’t want to be in, yet those are the cards that you are dealt with. Maybe it could also be that there are times where you have to put your reluctance aside for the common good of a goal for the overall organization, as hard as it is.
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Clearly, the Chiefs and 49ers tried to make distractions for their fans and their players. For the Chiefs, they had the cameras shined on the overpriced Taylor Swift as inspiration for the team to fight back against the Raiders as a concession. As for the 49ers, they had their players wear their old 1990’s jerseys from the team’s golden years. Both of these are examples of employers trying to give at least some distraction to get their teams focused on the task at hand.
Still, the Chiefs and 49ers are representations that working on holidays are not fun, but that its something that sometimes needs to be done for a variety of reasons (helping the organizations, paying the bills, etc.) and job coaches can look at yesterday’s games and use them as motivation for their clients to understand that the money can sometimes be found on holidays even if we would much rather be doing something else. This is especially true in industries like retail and food services, where that is also essential to an extent.
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Catch you all later and Happy Kwanzaa!!
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