The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

[The Argonaut]

I meant the long one

I know, yeah

[bart]

You really don’t know what your uncles/cousins do? Is that common??

[Jorge]

I sure don't

Probably in real estate... and one of them is a doctor I think..

[Ello Sailor]

Has Argo always been this wise? Or did the factory change him?

[Jorge]

Three days as a factory worker and Argo's already agitating for seizing the means of production

[Anders]

You really don’t know what your uncles/cousins do? Is that common??

Seems weird.

[The Argonaut]

I have no idea what Anders does for a job. And I love that guy!

[Ello Sailor]

Yeah, but he's not your uncle.

Be a better nephew, Argo.

[Anders]

Yeah, but he's not your uncle.

Be a better nephew, Argo.

Good point.

[The Argonaut]

Try to find joy in your labor. Try to be good at your work. Try to be proud of your accomplishments.

But if you can't find joy or if you aren't able to pull off anything worth being proud of, don't beat yourself up about it. It's really OK. You're the only one who cares. It's ok to stop caring.

[spike]

argo's like the one RMer whose occupation is known because he's talked about it enough.

[Ello Sailor]

Well, he was the sexiest librarian. Definitely worth noting.

[The Argonaut]

argo's like the one RMer whose occupation is known because he's talked about it enough.

but I was never very good at it, so I still have credibility on this topic

[pepperwhiteMFC]

The decision was made this week. That guy I was concerned with, is now my boss.
Here’s where I’m at with it though - he and I get along great but he tends to delegate too much (and he delegates it to me … lol) - he essentially handed his original job off to me when I started with company, and I have a feeling that it will end up happening again (delegation). Which begs the question, should I just accept this because the end result of it could be that I’ll qualify for his job at some point? I had been feeling like I should polish up my resume and I will probably still do that.

I’m the most senior member of the business division’s marketers. I’m one step away from the product line business leader. Now you guys know what I do for a living.

I suppose I had a lot of anxiety about things as my boss retired. Worrying about how the change would affect our progress and growth. Probably should be grateful that my delegating coworker was given the job, rather than a complete stranger to our business coming in and potentially taking us off track unintentionally.

Thanks for letting me express this to RM, even if nobody cares. I think things have been sorted. We had a nice off-site team meeting yesterday and I felt like maybe I have changed also, because I have always been more open and close to my coworkers than my boss per se.

Now, any new team member we hire, will roll up under the people who are familiar with things, rather than a new person coming in to change several people and move us in different directions. The GM said he didn’t want our momentum to alter.

I don’t know. At any rate - the stress of the unknown was definitely lifted off my shoulders yesterday.

[BurtReynolds]

2.5 million. That's the number. Just get that 2.5 million.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

2.5 million. That's the number. Just get that 2.5 million.

I think we have the same math.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[The Argonaut]

Also Argo’s post was a good one, and very funny, and it’s an acceptable view to have, but it’s not my view. I want to love my work, to pour myself into something that is fulfilling and brings me joy.

as well you should. I wish this for you

[The Argonaut]

I just read my late night post back and it is very funny. I was writing in a journal every night for a couple years between 2019 and 2021. Many of the entries are very much ravings along those lines. Madness.

pep: don't do your boss's job for your salary. Demand your moolah or refuse tasks. I don't know how to effect this, it seems like a difficult thing to do, so I wish you luck