Helpful, if brutally honest, post
This post on the Church of No, Thanks site, in retrospect, was one of my finest moments in recent memory… sorry if I’m dislocating my shoulder patting myself on the back, here… but … Now that I’ve left the job that was causing me so much grief, I can publicly tip my hand.
I wrote the post specifically about my job, not about any other specific relationship I’m in. That is to say, the stress of my situation at work was the inspiration for writing the post on the CoNT site. It seemed to me that the process I was using to weigh my options could be abstracted to a fairly universal thought process, and there was an aspect of peer pressure to the tendency to preserve extant relationships, rather than severing them and finding new ones. It seemed like a good fit for the CoNT site, and 5 months on, I still think so.
I re-read The Line today, after having quit my job; after having taken my own advice… and I feel pretty good about it… not a euphoric “feel good”… more of a serene, peaceful “feel good”. I haven’t felt like this in a long time.
It’s been such a long time
I think I should be going, yeah
Time doesn’t wait for me
It keeps on rolling–”Long Time”, Boston
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped me through this decision. Ultimately it was my decision to make, and I’m the one who has to live with the consequences, but it certainly was nice to have friends to, if nothing else, check my sanity.
Thanks everyone! You know who you are!