Take This Job and...
I can’t even begin to count how many people I know right now who are in really screwy positions, work-wise. First, the people I know who are miserable in their jobs, overworked, underpaid, underappreciated. Every time I turn around, someone is feeling dissatisfied in their current location, and I can just see a mass exodus coming that will shock a few employers out there. The sense of unrest is palpable.
Then, there are the friends of mine who are finding another line of work involuntarily. We met last night to finalize the details about our care package drive this weekend, and I was the only one of the four of us who isn’t in a tenuous position at best – two of them are parts of major layoffs where they work, and the last one was terminated this week. (I suspect she will have the last laugh, once her now-former employer realizes that they will NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS find an employee who does and gives so much.) So what, exactly, is going on?
Well, personally, even though it all sounds bad, I think it’s really about good things. Good changes, good shake-ups. For a lot of people I know or know of, 2005 was just a brutal year. Lots of changes, and not good ones. Lots of negative energy, lots of unease, lots of disharmony. Think back a little bit – did you notice feeling out-of-sorts more often than usual last year? Did you start thinking, “I can’t wait for this year to be over” as far back as July or August? Did the natural disasters in your area seem more severe than usual? Y’all know, of course, how bad those got out here. Mother Nature, apparently, has been quite PO’d. But this year, though it certainly feels like another year of transition, feels more like a year of positive transition. Maybe I’m biased because of the positive changes I’m seeing in my own life, but I really don’t think that’s all of it. I really think good things are starting to happen, and the people I know who are going through these struggles, are going to come out of it better than ever. Mouse-hole doors are closing, and huge picture windows are opening…
Then, there are the friends of mine who are finding another line of work involuntarily. We met last night to finalize the details about our care package drive this weekend, and I was the only one of the four of us who isn’t in a tenuous position at best – two of them are parts of major layoffs where they work, and the last one was terminated this week. (I suspect she will have the last laugh, once her now-former employer realizes that they will NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS find an employee who does and gives so much.) So what, exactly, is going on?
Well, personally, even though it all sounds bad, I think it’s really about good things. Good changes, good shake-ups. For a lot of people I know or know of, 2005 was just a brutal year. Lots of changes, and not good ones. Lots of negative energy, lots of unease, lots of disharmony. Think back a little bit – did you notice feeling out-of-sorts more often than usual last year? Did you start thinking, “I can’t wait for this year to be over” as far back as July or August? Did the natural disasters in your area seem more severe than usual? Y’all know, of course, how bad those got out here. Mother Nature, apparently, has been quite PO’d. But this year, though it certainly feels like another year of transition, feels more like a year of positive transition. Maybe I’m biased because of the positive changes I’m seeing in my own life, but I really don’t think that’s all of it. I really think good things are starting to happen, and the people I know who are going through these struggles, are going to come out of it better than ever. Mouse-hole doors are closing, and huge picture windows are opening…
posted by SaraSmile | 1:41 PM
1 Comments:
While you're at it ... can you hold one of those picture windows open for me s oI can sneak through? I could use a little fortune where the work situation is concerned and move on to something better! :)
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