Setting Expectations
This week brings another huge let down of a full time role that I did not get. This one (once again) was very close and I was certainly a top candidate. Of course now that the process is over I am told how great I am, how much they want to stay in touch, they will keep me in mind etc all of which I believe is true. They did a good job of running the process and I would have been quite happy to go there so there are no hard feelings......just the let down.
I so want to point the finger and go cry in the corner right now over this. I want to throw my hands up. I want to give up. I want to be consoled. I want a public uprising on the injustice that has been my 2008 and I want everyone to come to my rescue. I want everybody around me to be as disappointed as I am. I want this to be over. I want my life back.
But the fact remains that this is my problem and my life. I am in this, and I will find my way out of this. I will be the one to celebrate the victory when this is over and it will be a reservation for a party of one.
"Stop expecting more from others and more from yourself"
Damn straight.
I so want to point the finger and go cry in the corner right now over this. I want to throw my hands up. I want to give up. I want to be consoled. I want a public uprising on the injustice that has been my 2008 and I want everyone to come to my rescue. I want everybody around me to be as disappointed as I am. I want this to be over. I want my life back.
But the fact remains that this is my problem and my life. I am in this, and I will find my way out of this. I will be the one to celebrate the victory when this is over and it will be a reservation for a party of one.
"Stop expecting more from others and more from yourself"
Damn straight.
posted by Booster MPS at
4:53 PM
5 Comments:
umm hello? text message last night? offer of a call? any of this ring a bell? you can let those who want to console you do just that. don't feel like you have to dangle out there all by yourself. let us in.
i wish i could show up on your door step and force you to let me in (hey - i've got a bottle of belvedere in my bag and a very loud "LET ME IN" voice!). but long distance it's too easy for you to back off and isolate yourself. quit it. before i smack you. huggydammit.
Well, phuck.
Yes, you deserve better than your 2008. When Ella arrives get a couple of extra hugs from me out of her (before the Belvedere is good, after is better).
You aren't alone. You are just geographically undesirable.
The job problem is that you are too competent. Dial it back a few notches. If you aren't good enough for the job, it'll be a surprise when you get it.
And, Blessed is he who expecteth the worst for he is never disappointed. [I know it makes for a depressing life but until she arrives with the vodka...]
George, i think that many of us have found 2008 to be... trying. And that's putting it mildly.
I can't pretend that a date in the calendar is going to change anything, but I'm certain that your perseverance and positive nature will. That and the karka that's sure to come your way.
Have a great holiday in the meantime!
I meant karma, of course. Karka sounds like poop.
Hugs.
I have faith because you have faith.
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