Things related to work
I’ll start by saying that the title above is complete horse shit. There are moments in my life that delineate my more ignorant periods from my less ignorant periods.  I recently had one of these delineating moments a few weeks ago.  A co-worker of mine came into  my office because some work was passed to him that originated from me.  At the time the work was passed to the group he was working for, I…
I woke up this morning and puttered around until I came upon my collection of work day-planners on the lowest tier of my book shelf which numbers 8 in total.  The company I work for has given out day-planner/calender for as long as I’ve been working for them.  The scary part is that it’s fast approaching 10 years since I started working there. Early on I used the day-planner at work in an unconventional way.  I logged what…
I had and still have to a lesser extent a trait that generally doesn’t pay dividends in the working world – a need to please everyone. It was quite a burden. I’d go home feeling horrible because one of my co-workers was unhappy with a professional decision I’d made. Then I gained a little insight from my boss [first job] at the time. He told a parable which I still consult in all of my…
I was having lunch with some coworkers and the topic of poverty came up. You have that look of pity on your face. I understand. I shouldn’t discuss these sorts of topics with people whom I might offend. I’m a masochist. I know it. But I did. So deal with it. Someone had inferred that most of people in poverty earned their poverty. It was stated implicitly that the poor in general lacked the will…
“After enlightenment, chop wood.” That’s a saying by a probably long forgotten Buddhist. His saying lives on though. The truism that success brings it’s own set of problems is very viable. I recently came across a corollary. Extended success without failure leads one to believe one is incapable of failure. We all know this is NOT the case. I recently fell into this trap, though a bit of arrogance and complacency didn’t help my cause…