> kerri miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snippage throughout>
> So I've been a quiet little primate around here
> recently, and as I was
> fuddling about with an old mail archive, I found
> some of my first postings
> to Brin-L from back in '97 or '98 (!) I cringe
> reading over the
> "adolescent" crap I've written over the years;
*I* only have to go back a year or 2 for 'the
cringies!' <lop-sided grin>
> One of them I guess I can talk about, and even ask a
> little philisophical
> irregulars Life Advice on. Early last month, I
> parted ways with
> Amazon.com.. ok, well, I was fired, by a boss I'd
> been having difficulty
> with for some months. Starting 2 weeks after I came
> out to him with my
> *ahem* situation, I started getting a series of
> negative reviews, work
> loads increasing, deadlines shortening, resources
> dwindling...
Uhrrr, I suppose you don't want to get into a legal
wrangle over this (although you might have grounds for
it) -- that's rotten.
> Blah! So I've been dealing with that, this complex
> set of feelings about
> the entire affair -- aren't I more than my job?
<snip>...quite frankly, I don't really feel
> much like working at the moment.
> I've been doing all the things that we're supposed
> to do in order to
> fulfill that bumper sticker quote "live each day as
> if it were your last"....
Sounds like you've done some good 'what's out there
that I'd like to try?' work - As a group, it seems to
me that Ronn's right, and an awful lot of us have been
in (or still are) in a similar quandry.
> At what cost does one follow a dream? How do you
> detirmine when a dream is
> a directive, a demand, rather than an idle fantasy
> of what-ifs?
Heck if I know...but I have to say that working with
horses is the right thing for me right now; it's *so*
not lucrative, but I'm happier than I was for a long
time. <shrug> So I'd say, if it's _truly_ a dreamof
yours -- go for it.
Debbi
Oprah Says "Follow Your Bliss" Maru
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