Fortune smiles upon me
Sometimes you make your own breaks. Other times, things just happen without your own intervention. Whatever the case, you must always be thankful for all the good things that have happened in your life.
As if from the heavens, a fervent wish came true today. For a long time now I'd been a bit unhappy at my job. The root of my unhappiness lay not with the job itself or my duties; rather, it was my incompatibility with my co-workers' personalities.
It simply is hard to sustain honest relationships with people who act and think in ways that are too different to you. In order to promote some semblance of harmony in the workplace, I took it upon myself to swallow my pride and just do my job and occasionally vent and complain about what I saw as serious shortcomings on the part of my colleagues.
Thankfully, several months ago I only had to suffer through just half my workday at my "real" job. For four hours out of eight I had a very comfortable interlude, working in another office learning and doing another job within the same City department. The challenge of learning new skills proved to top up my sagging levels of motivation and gave me something, however small, to look forward to.
All throughout, I'd been planning all kinds of exit strategies, all prompted by a feeling of needing to escape my unhappiness at my "real" job. Whether it was by transfer to another department in the City, or starting anew with a totally new job, I was determined to find something else to do and not have to deal with the people I had grown to distrust and dislike.
Today, I was given the happy news that in a couple of weeks, I'll be working full-time at what had hitherto been my four hours of peace and quiet on the job. I will be transferring to the Operations Division, after working in Human Resources for the last year and a half. I am looking forward to the transition.
I can hardly wait to turn the page and start anew.
:: Posted by txtmstrjoe AT 8/06/2008 07:46:11 PM
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