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Re: FWD: Dealing with a challenging work situation
Subject:Re: FWD: Dealing with a challenging work situation From:Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:51:23 -0500
On 01/02/01 9:44 PM, anonfwd -at- raycomm -dot- com (anonfwd -at- raycomm -dot- com) wrote:
>I do plan to start a job hunt soon. I may have a job
>in a neighboring state, but it may take several months
>before it materializes. I just need to know how to
>deal with things here until that time.
[snip]
>Any perspective you can help me gain would be greatly appreciated.
I definitely sympathize, and appreciate the good story, but I'm not sure
what you really want from the list. You have what might have been a
decent job in a lousy situation, you have too much empathy for your
co-workers, and you should leave. But you already knew all that, and said
as much.
So all I can think to tell you, as far as "how to deal with things here
until that time," is to get out *faster*. Why wait for a new job that
won't show up for several months? Get something else... it's not as if
good writers, especially with your kind of self-starting, need to wait
for a good job to show up. Go. Go now. Don't wait.
Hope that's the kind of perspective that will help...
----->Mike
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