The heart to conquer it...

[psluke]

simply put, work has been hell. Busy, yes, but also an emotional turmoil with a guy that I have to work closely with. He's gone out of his way (ok, probably not on purpose) to alienate just about everyone -- last week we had a candid conversation and now he has completely FREAKED! He's been ranting to my boss about EVERYONE (including me!) and everything and we're all sort of reeling from it. It's definitely been demoralizing.

Hi Ms. Sage,

Some random thoughts this evening. Probably not anything that will help but thought I would throw them out for you.

I know that your job has been an ongoing stress but you don't feel you can leave it right now.

Something I have discovered for me is when the job stress gets too intense and the sitch seems rather hopeless is I am in part projecting some emotions/perceptions of my own into the sitch and if I can look at it from a different angle then I can sometimes alleviate some of the stress.

Obviously this guy freaking out and everyone up in arms can't be overlooked, but it probably will settle back down after awhile. Situations rarely stay static.

I know when the accounting firm let me go, I had debated for some time leaving the job as it stressed me out so bad. But it was a darn good job and there were parts I really liked. Anyway when you look at the job from the angle that I was suddenly looking at it there were other ways I could have looked at some of the stress or even dealt with some of the sitchs.

I wasn't let go because of any problems, they actually found the job for me that I have now. They just downsized that area of the firm and I was one of the newer, less experienced people in that area.

Anyway I have found that same sort of differing outlook to be true in more than one job sitch and even in more than jobs but sometimes in life in general.

Hope I didn't sound totally ditzy here tonight.