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Catherinedana
03-01-2011, 01:46 PM
Funny how we get encouragement from the most interesting places. I have been unhappy at my job for some time now, not because I don't like what I do or the company I work for, but because my boss can be very difficult. She doesn't know how to talk to people and I think she is a bit of a manipulator, doing what she can to keep information from people so that she is more "important" and would be difficult to replace. And she's a bully. Anyway, it's time to move on but that's often quite frightening and I sometimes think, well, the devil I know is better than the devil I don't.. .blah blah blah. . .even though this devil has made me cry with her nasty tone and insulting remarks. Maybe I should wait. . .maybe I won't find a job. . .maybe no one will hire me. . .what's the use in this economy. . .etc.

So I get this fortune cookie "Delay is the most detrimental form of denial" :D

and I start applying for jobs both within and outside of my company.

So far, no luck and I start to get discouraged. Again I think. . .what's the use. . .I don't have the right skills. . .I'm too old for this nonsense. . .etc

and then I get this fortune cookie "If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you've always gotten" :D

Think someone's trying to tell me something?

Karen
03-01-2011, 01:58 PM
Hee hee! This is a new month - and the only month that is a verb, so March! Go for it! :)

Marigold2
03-01-2011, 02:18 PM
Best of luck.

momcat
03-02-2011, 08:56 AM
Hee hee! This is a new month - and the only month that is a verb, so March! Go for it! :)

Karen, what a great thing to say! I never thought about it that way but you're absolutely right. Is it okay if I share this with my co-workers?

Hi Catherinedana, things will work out for you. An English teacher I had in high school used to say, "Take a chance. Columbus did and look what he found!"