"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

behaviors
April 29, 2003 - 6:57 pm

things i need to change if i go to school. not just behaviors, well mostly..

at work we were talking about how odd it can be when young people can get into positions of power. well, i don't find it odd, i'm young. one of the people i work with is 40 and she said she get's amazed when she sees some twenty-something kid in a real important position.

i said, if i had stayed at my last company i'd be running a sales office right now.

she just kinda looked at me, like 'you? run an office?' i'm impressed she didn't start laughing.

it occurred to me then that my behavior at this job is a lot different than at my last. i'm a very non-serious person at work. it's very relaxed, which i love. it's just that...i make lots of jokes, kinda fool around.

at my last job, i was the very oppisite. it was much much much more formal. i was the perfect definition of 'get your work done, get it done right and go home'.

my whole mindset is different.

in some ways i like where i'm at now, but i can see the...value, the advantage of where i was before. i need to get more serious.

of course, it doesn't hurt that 4 days out of 5 i have pretty much nothing demanding to do.

at my old job, i was one busy little beaver.

i kinda wonder how things would be if i'd have stayed and become a manager. then i think that i know i wasn't ready for that and then i start to recall the reasons i left. not the best of reasons, but they were more than enough at the time.

overall, i think i made the right choice.