My uncle expects me to be making six figures by 2011, after all.
No disrespect for your family, but... what do * you * want? That is the most important thing.
x-quote from lightbulbs, since it's not really a lightbulbs thing:
omnis, I do know I can tweak my spoiler font/background. I've yet to find a combo that makes it easy and not tiring to read what I want and not see what I don't want.
Ita, I hear ya. I still have the default white background. The pale yellow spoiler works fine, but, it's a white background. I've been debating changing it out, but the spoiler font always stops me dead.
(Omnis, ita spells her name with a lowercase "i"--just letting you know because I know it is a sore point for her and you'd have no way to know.)
ION, I am off for a long weekend! Woot! Of course I have to grade 46 "Lost Books" of the
Odyssey,
which is not quite as exciting, but still. Time to GO HOME.
A really bad work environment can suck out so much of your soul and self-confidence that it ultimately won't advance your career.
Not enough WORD in the world. Having had an awful awful work environment in the not too distant past, I learned that it is the most important thing in the work world to me. The bad just took over my whole life and sucked any joy out of it. Thank God I'm out of that hell!
Yikes! Thanks Pix for the heads up. Sorry ita.
This is what I feel like, but I also feel like I should be looking out for my career as a professional and an adult and all that. My uncle expects me to be making six figures by 2011, after all.
I am going to be blunt. Being an adult means not giving a rat's ass about your uncle's expectations for *your* career.
A really bad work environment can suck out so much of your soul and self-confidence that it ultimately won't advance your career.
Bingo. Also, a really bad work environment can be so stressful that you just wouldn't be able to concentrate on advancing your career.
A really bad work environment can suck out so much of your soul and self-confidence that it ultimately won't advance your career.
This. I took a $10K pay cut to move from my last school to this one, and it was worth every lost penny.
I am going to be blunt. Being an adult means not giving a rat's ass about your uncle's expectations for *your* career.
Also this.
I am going to be blunt. Being an adult means not giving a rat's ass about your uncle's expectations for *your* career.
I don't seriously expect to fulfill that expectation, but I do think I should be watching out for my career in general. Because...careers are good? I don't know; maybe I should attempt to become a drug safety person instead. But that's not really what I want to do. I'd rather be writing in some capacity for money, even if it's medically.
You should absolutely be watching out for your career and I am not suggesting otherwise. But you depend a lot on what your uncle thinks of everything (car, work, women) and until you can shake that dependency off, and take his opinions with the same grain of salt as everyone else's, you're not an adult.
