“My work is a game, a very serious game.” –M. C. Escher
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How about your work? Is it a game? Is it serious? How do you see either your job or the activities you do in relation to it?
I regard my work as a teacher as both serious and a game. My students need to learn things, and it is a challenging game to figure out the best way to facilitate their learning. Conincidentally, a game is often the best method for teaching them.
NOTE ON THE IMAGE: The works of M. C. Escher are under copyright, but I include this image for nonprofit, educational purposes under the fair use doctrine. For more information and more artwork, check out the excellent Official M. C. Escher Website.
Other Escher Sources:
Wikipedia article on M. C. Escher
“The Mathematical Art of M. C. Escher” at Math Academy
3 responses so far ↓
Longing for Holiday // January 9, 2008 at 9:47 pm |
I loved staring at Escher drawings when I was a kid. I wish I could get paid for writing a blog. But then I would be bored the 8 hours that work now takes up. I like work. Sometime.
Pauline // January 9, 2008 at 10:06 pm |
I would love to have work that I could view as a game of sorts, but the current job doesn’t lend itself well to that. When I was doing computer programming it was much easier to do that, as programming has a lot in common with the various puzzles I enjoy doing in my free time.
Since nearly all communications at our company are done by email (and that is how the company wants it to be done), I have to be careful to be serious in my written communications. Occasionally I am tempted to say something joking in an email. But after one time doing that and being misunderstood, I have learned to limit it to people I am sure I know well enough that they will take it the right way.
languagelover // January 10, 2008 at 11:16 pm |
Online communications is a dangerous place to be in the workplace because without the use of body language and facial expression and tone, it’s hard to tell what someone means, Pauline. Emoticons can help, but you are right to avoid joking in staff emails. It just leads to trouble. Of course, I get in trouble all the time. I can’t help being sarcastic.
Oh, and I wanted to add a thanks, RG, for sharing the Escher pic. I always love looking at those.