Good timing, Tradd!
Good timing, Tradd!
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
I've had a couple of recruiters contact me about broker positions this week. I'm at least talking to them. Boss keeps making changes to his homegrown system and the updates keep having to be walked back because the changes don't work with other things. Or I can't work in the customs software (someone else developed that) because he's fiddling with something. I probably lost at least two hours of work time this week due to downtime due to these changes.
Boss has been increasingly pissy and I'm tired of it. I do NOT want to work in an office again and I'd hate to wear a mask at work (awful with my hot flashes), but gotta pay for diving!
Tradd are you vaccinated? If so maybe an employer would not require a mask at least when you are in your own cubicle?
Even when they have cubicals, some people have cubicals, I'm squished in an office with others, but the few days I've gone to the office during covid it's just been me in there, they aren't allowing many in at once.
Trees don't grow on money
Just got a message from boss - We use MS Teams to message (text, really) and when you're not active you get the messages as emails. I have work email on my phone. Anyway, he's been approving the customs clearances and transmitting about all of them the Customs himself since late in the fall. The message I just got says that the requirement that he approve all clearances has been removed. I’ll also be billing files and sending invoices out to the customers. I think this is due to two things - 1. He's going to be gone on vacation for the next two weeks and working reduced hours. 2. He's going to let me sink or swim. Said the goals for error reduction are no longer relevant. However, I’ll still get dinged for big errors or that go outside the company. That was interesting.
Tradd, it seems to me that you are feeling vulnerable, understandably. Your boss is actually saying that you are ready to stand on your own two feet, a compliment and a significant one.
Having experienced similar feelings of vulnerability over the years, the feeling within your post seems like a nudge for you to work on your self-confidence. May I suggest that each morning, you start your day with gratitude for a fresh beautiful day, reminding yourself of all the accomplishments throughout your life and the learning going on right now. You are smart, capable, loving, helpful, significant, and so many more qualities. Don't underestimate the importance of making this a daily practice. Because you have stated your faith, I will add that God created you and so you are "fearfully and wonderfully made" with talents and abilities that are needed and valued. One of the challenges of living solo, as I know, is self-validation. It is important to do this. Hugs.
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
That's how I took this. Tradd's description of her boss and the company makes it pretty clear this is his baby and has been for some time, and he has had to accommodate a lot to let someone else in on it, yet business is too good for him to handle it alone. It's been a growth experience for him, too. So letting Tradd solo is a good sign.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
I had soloed at the beginning but made too many mistakes so that stopped.
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