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shadowkatThis is Day #14 of 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge
The prompt is What rejection are you grateful for or name a rejection you are grateful for. (It was most grateful for - but it's hard enough as it is.)
I don't know. I try not to remember the rejections. Also there's been a lot of them. I survived, obviously, and moved on. Rejection - I've learned has very little to do with me - and a lot to do with the person doing the rejecting. It's not personal.
I suppose I'm grateful that I didn't get those law jobs I applied for in Missouri and Iowa. I'd have been miserable in them.
The prompt is What rejection are you grateful for or name a rejection you are grateful for. (It was most grateful for - but it's hard enough as it is.)
I don't know. I try not to remember the rejections. Also there's been a lot of them. I survived, obviously, and moved on. Rejection - I've learned has very little to do with me - and a lot to do with the person doing the rejecting. It's not personal.
I suppose I'm grateful that I didn't get those law jobs I applied for in Missouri and Iowa. I'd have been miserable in them.
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Date: 2020-11-16 04:20 am (UTC)I was with the first company about 6 years, and another technician had left a few months back. The company made no effort to replace him, so I was doing both my work and what he covered. When they said he wouldn't be replaced "right now... maybe later on", I asked-- quite reasonably-- that they pay me what they paid him, which was substantially more. Nope, "can't do that right now."
Yeah, they could've, they were cheap bastards. I made plans that very same day to find a better place to work, and did so. The new folks were great, I got a nice boost in pay, and a great deal of respect from them for my technical abilities, which were as good or better than their most senior tech. I worked for them for 9 years, and would have happily stayed with them loinger, but the American appliance industry was rapidly following the example of the American auto industry (this is the mid-80's) and going rapidly downhill.
Feeling greater and greater physical and mental fatigue in running service calls all day, 5 or 6 days a week, repairing what increasingly were poorly made and less serviceable products, I very reluctantly parted ways from them and transitioned into the audio industry.
So, that first rejection of my very reasonable request turned out to be a very good thing in the overall balance of things.
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Date: 2020-11-16 02:02 pm (UTC)Sounds like your work history was fairly pleasant and had rather easy transitions, that's rare. You're lucky.
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Date: 2020-11-17 08:32 am (UTC)As long as you are at least generally handy, reasonably intelligent, and adaptable, you should always have work. Now-- whether you get paid properly for it is another matter, and trickier to deal with.
My biggest issues over my working life have always been with the industries I worked in, and not with the people I worked with, even those first guys. They were mostly just cheap, they weren't mean or nasty to me or my co-workers.
(BTW, I'm trying to stay within your "please be positive" request. Feel free to delete if this or any other comment is inappropriate. I assure you, I'm not trying to be negative, just informative, or to provide context).
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Date: 2020-11-17 02:58 pm (UTC)The trades are necessary - I work with a lot of folks in the trades in my job, and know how much many are paid. Unions do help scale up salaries for some - and that's actually why many unions exist - and we should be grateful for their existence. Unions help the working class folks - who aren't in white collar, but blue collar trade-jobs.
My grandfather was a tradesman. He was a carpenter. And I think sometimes my brother is a frustrated one - he's rewired his kitchen, set up a hot tub in his back yard (it's a wooden tub - not what you'd think), built shelves, etc. Also installed a bose sound-system in his house.
I am grateful for tradesmen and women - who fix plumbing, elevators, and audio/visual equipment. I think sometimes we take these folks for granted - until that is, the toilet backs up or the television breaks down or we need a new stereo system.
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Date: 2020-11-16 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-16 01:50 pm (UTC)