Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Shock, Leading to Empowerment.


After I resigned I have been through a range of emotions. It really has unsettled my train trips. I've found I can't concentrate on anything for long. So I read for a while, listen to music for a while, send a few disjointed emails. Shock--is that an emotion or a state of being?--played a big part in my first week; immense relief; fear of an unknown future: anger that I should have felt forced to leave. These emotional states have cycled through me at a rapid rate. Right now I feel empowered. I just had a heart to heart with my boss. It went really well. I won't say we are now bosom buddies, but I can now leave knowing I don't hold any animosity toward him. I am relieved by that, it would have lingered with me for a very long time. There are always two sides to every story. Each person has an entirely different perspective, with some validity. Today, for the first time, I was able to get my boss to appreciate my perspective. Too late for him as I have made the decision to leave, there is no turning back. I hope my boss can learn something from this experience. I've given him the opportunity anyway. Somewhere along the line communications broke down between us. Part of it was some issues of mine; a lot of it was him. I've always felt like didn’t fit in this role. There is no guarantee the next job will be better, I'll do my best to ensure that it doesn't occur a second time. The job market looks good today, there were quite a few positions that looked worthy of my interest.

The music I listened to today was from a collection of songs put together in July for a group of friends. I was proud of the final result.  I did get some extremely valuable help from my partner. At the time I lacked the confidence to complete it on my own.

Here is one of the songs from the collection I listened to this morning.




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