April 24, 2005
Interesting lament from a North Adams (MA) Transcript intern who ended up in a scuffle about a summer job. Or no summer job.
A bit wide of our usual beat, but irresistible as an example that highlights familiar matters associated with practical happiness. If we were writing the ideal diary entry after this episode, we might inscribe the [tear-stained] following:
- Don't count your chickens before they hatch. If you do, don't brag prematurely.
- Don't burn your bridges. Even "failures" can initiate a relationship, especially in a professional field.
- It takes two to tango/it's not all about "me."
- The agenda may not be subject to my dictatorship, and I may need to discipline myself not to demand communication that meets my standards, satisfies my emotions, and 100% sings my tune.
- Note to self: Analyze my position in the power equation before throwing a public fit of unbridled narcissism. Such displays may not, for the foreseeable future, serve the person sitting at the [job-seeking] downside. Bosses, regrettably, may be another matter.
- Note to the world: Intergenerational style difference in the workplace is HUGE. Brace [y]ourselves.
Via PressThink's New Best Blogfriend ("truthtelling at its best"), First Draft, who generically pointed to Romanesko.
Update: Letters to Romanesko ask, "What were her editors thinking?!," interspersed with "Awwwww, we were all young once..."
What Can You Learn Watching a Krystal Grow?
http://sisypheanmusings.blogspot.com/2005/04/what-can-you-learn-watching-krystal.html
Posted by: Sisyphus | April 25, 2005 at 08:49 PM