The last few months at my job have been.... challenging. Nepotism and ageism reign, as does my great-bosses seeming disdain for both overweight people and working moms (so yeah, we get along GREAT!!!!!)
Of course it's that time of year when we're supposed to make our goals for the coming year. Ugh. Seriously. My goal is to come in, do the job I'm paid to do, and leave at 5. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, I don't want to scrape and climb my way up the corporate ladder, I don't really care to figure out ways to make our processes oh-so-much-smoother. I just want to do my job and go home. I. Don't. Care.
That's not the kind of person I think I'm supposed to be. I think we're supposed to be driven and determined and want to get ahead and make more money. I don't. I want to get home to my family and be with them.
So.... my Motto (?) for 2011 is "I'm more of a Jimmy Buffett than a Warren Buffett"
Saturday, January 8, 2011
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I've always felt the same way. I have had jobs where the bosses wanted you to put your job first. Heck no...my children come first, when I go home at the end of the day, it all stays behind!
Good for you and good luck!
Amen!!
I love you.
Amen to that!
Warren Beatty?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ;)
So what I hear you saying is that it would be an understatement to say you don't feel passionate about your job? I do, but I'm sure I would feel differently in a job that wasn't for me. Maybe one day, you will find something that makes you say, "Now, THAT's what I'm talkin' about!" You never know...
Even though I'm in school for my BSN, I still have no desire to climb any further up the ladder at work. I love working my two nights a week and leaving the hospital in Cincinnati where it belongs, not at home with my babies.
Cheeseburger in paradise, baby, all the way...
changes in attitude....changes in lattitude.
excellent motto. words to live by, by my favorite duck. xo
This is constantly a struggle for me too. Setting annual goals and being reviewed against these is part of our corporate culture. Sometimes 'buying' into these is harder than others. Generally when I'm struggling with the goals, it means it's time to find a new role. It's hard.
Here's the thing. I believe I have many God given abilities. Being a mom is big part of those. And, this doesn't make me the best mom. It means I have talents that I need to use. These talents can be used outside the home and at work too. Improving myself, at work or at home are still improvements and these too are an example to my kids. I learn at home and I learn at work.
Recently thesportsdaddy (that'd be the spouse) has been hounding me about goal setting at home. Seriously, as if getting through goal setting at work isn't enough of a pain. I'd prefer to just take each days as it comes. Generate the daily task list, cram the weekends full or running errands, call it all a success and move on. Recently it's dawned on me. What if I really did dream in this space. He's right; I can't believe I just said that. It's time to set goals, even at home. It's a bit about dreaming too. What are my home and family dreams?
What am I saying? If you don't like the process, find something else to do. As an employee you still need to get it done. Growing as an employee doesn't have to mean climbing a corporate ladder. You still have talents to use to their fullest. Figure out how to make it work for you.
You've got my email, send me your goals and I'll help you figure it out.
Off my soap box now. :-)
Oh I hate this time of year too! Why do we have to write all the stupid goals down? Ugh...
Maybe I'll just use yours ;o)
Amen!!!
I no longer punch a time clock but I recall having to set annual goals when I did. It was my least favorite thing to do.
I love it! And I totally get where you're coming from. I think if I were back in the corporate world now, I would feel very much the same way.
CHEERS TO THAT!!!
Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes Jimmy or Cheeseburger in Paradise Jimmy? I prefer the latter, personally. With french fried potatoes.
I should really read other ppls comments before I think I'm all that clever. Just sayin'.
I'm with you...I just want to do my job well, get paid and go home. Your boss doesn't like overweight people, single moms or older people? What the crap? Where do you work...Abercrombie & Fitch? Because otherwise they need to get over themselves. STAT.
I'm with Brandy, those prejudices rules about about 80% of the population. They're shooting themselves in the foot, seems like to me.
Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.
I once wrote a series of "goals" for a particularly persnicketty boss that went something like this:
1. Institute mandatory naptime for all employees.
2. Cosmos in the water cooler.
3. Catered lunches on Fridays.
4. Obligatory timeout for all bosses who hover.
5. 30-hour workweek, at 40-hour compensation.
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