Eureka!
Fun times at the UN - drinks with the girls on the team...we look smashing don't we?
Lesson 1 - don't join a firm/group for the people...join for the opportunity and the job that will get you somewhere (if that's what you aspire for you greedy corporate grunts) or if it really does satisfy what you want to do in the now.
Lesson 2 - you end up leaving the group because of the people you don't want to work with...or because the role/job you're doing is so significantly different (and not in a good way) from what was promised that it leaves you no incentive to what to do your best
I refuse to be worked into a corner...to be boxed up in a role that I know I can dominate without wasting a single brain cell...
For a bunch of folks that are supposed to be people persons and supposedly intuitive and smart...they don't seem to understand the basic principle of the 'carrot and stick' theory. If you're presented with an opportunity that just seems so damn great (wow that carrot looks good!)... it makes you want to bust your ass and work hard to get it
My backwards ass neanderthal group wants me to EXCEL! in my current little role before they 'think about' giving me more opportunity. Now i'm just thinking 'what the fuck kinda logic is that?!' Where's my incentive to bust my ass if I don't see something ahead of me.
I thought HR was about change...innovation and the chance to be really creative. Instead we're afraid to push the corporate button to actually do anything. Oh how idealistic and naive I am
So it's a race...let's find that next job that won't make me feel like my morals have been reduced to nothingness...
Who wants to move to Africa and build houses!?!?!
Let's go to the World Court and debate international law
Hell ...just help the poor lady with the baby carriage get in the subway...and get off your ass to give your seat to someone who really needs it.
posted by ilennovy @ 7:53 PM
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Oh how young and idealistic you are... (even though you're older than me.) Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with almost everything you said, but the way I see it, sometimes your job has to be a compromise. It's something you do, which in turn allows you to do what you love. I started out working in the arts, only to realize that I didn't love making art in general happen, I loved making my own art happen. And simply surrounding myself with other creative individuals didn't satisfy that passion (like you said about not taking a job for the people.) So while my job doesn't give me the opportunity to directly engage my talents, it does so indirectly, by allowing me to survive in the city, and leaving me time to work on my own. And if you want to go build houses in Africa, you don't need a job to do that, you could probably live comfortably for years there wihtout much money at all.
:hugs:
I love you, XXX.
You are going to be fine.
You are currently where I was three months ago.
If you need help getting "un stuck" you KNOW that I'm here for you 24/7.
The craziness at work is NOT YOU. (I mean, you're crazy... but still... nobody is THAT crazy). The people you work with are not horrible... They are not cruel... They are not heartless. I think that the real "issue" is that they have too much to do, and incorrectly prioritize the team's development.
As you can see, they can't keep this up... three departures in three months? At the rate they're going, there will be nobody left after comp season.
People who love their jobs are truly the lucky ones...
When I was little, my dad used to say, "First figure out what you love to do... And then we'll figure out how you can make money doing it."
When I was 8, it sounded so simple...
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