Lately, one aspect of my professional life has not been all it could be. It certainly doesn’t match the picture I have of a completely rewarding experience, one in which I would eagerly jump out of bed to greet.
One definition of maturity I’ve come across recently (not that I was looking or anything), is the acceptance of your current circumstances as a prelude to change. In years past I would have been much more vociferously bemoaning my fate and eager to get out of the situation with no more than a cursory understanding of why I got myself into the situation in the first place. With this current situation, I find myself still as frustrated and annoyed but not as eager to jump away from it into something, anything, else.
What is different now compared to similar situations in the past? For one thing, and possibly for the first time in my life, I can more clearly see my own role in getting into the situation and I feel that it is important for me to understand that role as a prelude to getting out of the situation. Another reason is that I don’t have all my eggs in this basket. I’m doing something outside of this situation that can be considered of a professional nature and that gives me a high degree of personal satisfaction in its professional aspect.
Further, a large part of this issue boils down to a mere personality conflict between myself and another person and really those are just silly. Nevertheless, I will leave you with this quote from Dr. Sanity as an indicator of how a portion of my day has been.
Avenging petty slights and insults is not a high priority to a psychologically healthy person.
Yay Rog!
I myself fairly recently extracated myself from my employer of 7 years for stabiliy reasons. As I suspected, but more quickly than I anticipated, a larger, more stable entity has purchased my former employer and I am considering returning under the right circumstances. I am not unhappy in the day to day of the new gig and have learned a thing or two of a useful nature. This pleases me, yet I am ready to make a move again in less than a year. I’m not sure I understand it completely, but it feels right.
I see that you’re attempting to get a head start on the political dialectics for 2008 with that Dr. Sanity link – lol
Are you donations of time to the G.O.P. tax deductible? That would be sweet!
The writing around the link is some obscured, first person introspection. You left the rest to our imagination. Can you fill in with some more details or is it just too personal? Who, what, where, when, why, how, etc.
Well I should have linked to the general web site rather than that one post, but the post had the quote, so…
Nevertheless, the contents of the Dr. Sanity post really had NOTHING whatsoever to do with this one, other than I liked her statement on petty insults.
Having said that, I will say this. Hillary Clinton will never get my vote. Ever. She stands for EVERYTHING I detest in the Democratic Party. She is a statist, collectivist elite who is convinced she knows what’s best for everyone else but never will, in actuality and who will not live by the same rules she forces the rest of us to accept.