That’s a lie. It totally is about the who.
I was recently hired back in to the world of full time employment. A job that has so much potential, a job that I want to be excited about, but rather, spent most of the weekend being nervous and worrying about.
But today, it was like the first day of school.
I carefully picked out a professional looking outfit, keeping in mind that my now boss mentioned during my interview that I “shouldn’t wear heels.” Advice if you will.
I realized, that the people that warned me when I re-started my job search, that it wasn’t about the job per se, but more so about the people that you’re working with. Because, any one can have their dream job but if you’re working with nothing but a bunch of negative Nancy’s….then what’s the point?
Tonight at dinner with Fiance, I spoke animatedly about my new job. How the people are brilliant and more importantly, the spark I lost, the passion I thought was long gone, is back. Sometime over the past year, I lost my passion for politics, for policy. I became lost, disoriented and on a path where I had no idea where I was going or where I wanted to go.
Today? I found it all again. I couldn’t be happier, or more excited. It’s nice to feel like myself again and remember WHY I moved to this sometimes-god-awful city to begin with.
So remember, it’s not necessarily about what you’re doing, my job is by no means glamorous, and may have been the cause of my skepticism over the weekend, but today? I got excited about work. The people that I work with? Brilliant. Engaging. And I have a hunch, that they just might be pleasant and not so hard to work with. People who have “high expectations” but are “accommodating” and “good people” to work for (in the words of a others).
This is the start of something good. I can only keep my head down and be a good little worker bee and do my best from here. Keeping my fingers crossed that everything works out and that I have finally found my calling.
