1.
WHY WORK IS
NOT JUST
‘WORK’
© 2017 - OLAMIDE ADEYEMO.

2.
MY HOPE…
That we lead happy* lives
where work doesn’t seem
like work.
The premise here is that we (not our employers, companies, businesses, suppliers, colleagues and even clients) are ultimately responsible for our happiness.So
the focus here is on us, and not the other parties afore-listed. After all, it’s our lives.

3.
WITH 9 SLIDES IN (HOPEFULLY) LESS
THAN 18 MINUTES…
1. WhyThis May InterestYou
2. Your Life (Likely)
3. Some UglyTruths
4. Hello,Work!
5. Even Needs Need Work
6. Influencers
7. Doing ItWrong
8. Working BetterWorks
9. Work Is More

4.
WHYTHIS MAY INTEREST YOU…
✓ You are here!
✓ It is pervades your life (ranged between 82,215 - 91,000 active
work hours: appx. 10yrs in a lifetime*)
✓The significance of one’s active years
✓Your loved ones work or will do.
* Please consult the next slide for more information

5.
YOUR LIFE (LIKELY)…
FACTS/SUPPOSITIONS
▪ Life Expectancy (Nigeria in 2017) – 50.85 & 57.49 (avg. 54.17) for males and females respectively via the U.S. Census Bureau Rankings
(2012 – 2050); an average of 70 for both sexes was used for the purpose of this presentation.
▪ Worked an “8 – 5” from age 25 – 60; retirement in Nigeria’s civil service is pegged at 35years of service or 60yrs of age via the Statutory
Corporations Pensionable Officers (Retiring Age Limit) Act
▪ According to the National Institutes of Health, the average adult sleeps less than seven hours per night. For this presentation, sleep
hours to be benchmarked at 7.
Work,
82215, 25%
Sleep, 89425,
27%Weekends,
61880, 18%
Other
Activities,
102200, 30%
COMPUTATIONS
▪ 35 years = active work
period
▪ Other 35 years = infancy,
childhood, teenage years,
early adulthood and late
adulthood
▪ 8760hrs/year,
306,600hrs/35yrs
▪ Work (less weekends) =
2,349hrs/year
▪ Sleep = 2,555hrs/year
▪ Weekends (less sleep) =
17hrs/day; 104days -
1768hrs/year
▪ Other Activities =
2920hrs/year
▪ Work = a quarter of active
years; a third of the active
hours in active years
Work,
82215, 33%
Other
Activities,
102200,
42%
Weekends,
61880, 25%
(ACTIVE HOURS DURING
ACTIVEYEARS)
(ACTIVEYEARS: 25YRS – 60YRS)

6.
SOME UGLYTRUTHS…
✓Never put the quality of your life in the hands of a commercial corporation. Most
companies are designed to get as much from you as they can get away with.
✓Owning a business is NOT for everyone.
✓Most people work long hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them buy things they don’t
need to impress people they don’t like.
✓There is only so much you can control.
✓The bad news – nothing lasts forever. The good news – nothing lasts forever.
✓This job that you love (if you are blessed to) will not love you back every time.
✓No one is indispensable.

7.
HELLO,WORK!
/wəːk/
1. Activity - involving mental or physical effort done in order to
achieve a result; a task or tasks to be undertaken
2. Job - means of earning income; employment
3. A place where one is employed
4. The period of time one spends in paid employment

8.
EVEN NEEDS NEED WORK…
Source:Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review.

9.
INFLUENCERS
✓Environment
✓Industry/Sector
✓Policies/Regulations
✓Leadership Style
✓Structure
✓Culture
✓Opportunities
✓Colleagues

10.
DOING IT WRONG
✓Lazy or just mediocre
✓Stagnatin’ = Regressin’
✓“O ye weekend! Our darling saviour!!”
✓Obligation to the Employer
✓For the ‘moolah’
✓When Insecurity finds Expression
✓“Me against the world”
✓Entitlement (longevity/attitude/complaints)
✓Mistaking transportation for destination

11.
WORKING BETTERWORKS
✓ Gratitude
✓ Growth – what we aren’t really good at frustrates us
✓ Truly caring about the Enterprise
✓ Take responsibility - Like Richard Branson, I can lose and
still find myVirginity
✓ Think (and act) like an owner - This right here is MINE!
✓ It’s no competition, baby
✓ Respect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
✓ We are as strong as our weakest
✓ The Big picture… It all adds up
✓ I should MUST be proud of me

12.
WORK IS MORE…
✓Not having to pursue ‘Happyness’
✓Beyond 8 - 5, it affects other things that
matter
✓It is your brand: a direct extension of you
✓The reward for good work is more work
✓The vehicle for purpose
✓“Meaningful” contribution to the world
✓Work-Life what???

13.
If you lead
your life
the right
way, Life
will take
care of
itself. The
dreams
will come
to you.

14.
OLAMIDE ADEYEMO
Dreamer. Believer. Doer.
I continue to lay the foundations of my several castles
in the air.
OLAMIDEADEYEMO