Days at work have driven something home:
Jul. 8th, 2003 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Working for the government can be potentially hazardous to your Mental Health. Long enough time spent, bending to the whims of beaurocrats, decreases your flexibility, adaptability, and ability to grasp and integrate new ideas. I spent a good portion of my day, listening to people explain things to two people with whom i work, over and over, and these people asking the same questions, again and again. Because they were so set in the ideas that they had about the project, and what they had told to management, that thye were unable to be flexible, or accept new things. Everything had to be Tightly Woven to their prior ideas and, in fact, seeming to be The Same as the prior... This Irks Me.
I seriously hope that my time in government work doesn't do this to me. That my ability to adapt, change, and grow remains unchecked. If i become too bounded by my own expectations... Well shit... I'll have failed. :) But there is hope: My father and mother, working in federal and local government, respectively, have retained the ability, at least in their working environs, to adapt quickly. It is, in fact, one of the standards my father has set. Change, and adaptability.
I don't get worked With, i get talked At. Down To. People have, in their minds, a preconception of my [in]abilities, and the "Fact" that they have to show me Everything. Some things, yes, i'm unfamiliar with. I'm also not Unintelligent. Explain something to me, once, then Show it to me, once, and everything will be fine. I can learn the Rest, from doing it. Auditory, visual, and kinestetic learning criteria satisfied. :\
Other than that, i had a really nice dream, this afternoon. I keep meaning to get into a regiment of excercise, after i get home from work, but i keep passing out, for at least 10 minutes, then not wanting to do Anything, but eat and watch tv, after that. Today, though, i slept for ten minutes, and it felt like an hour or More. And that dream Rocked.
Keeping myself wrapped in a cloak of change, i move on. Later, kids.
I seriously hope that my time in government work doesn't do this to me. That my ability to adapt, change, and grow remains unchecked. If i become too bounded by my own expectations... Well shit... I'll have failed. :) But there is hope: My father and mother, working in federal and local government, respectively, have retained the ability, at least in their working environs, to adapt quickly. It is, in fact, one of the standards my father has set. Change, and adaptability.
I don't get worked With, i get talked At. Down To. People have, in their minds, a preconception of my [in]abilities, and the "Fact" that they have to show me Everything. Some things, yes, i'm unfamiliar with. I'm also not Unintelligent. Explain something to me, once, then Show it to me, once, and everything will be fine. I can learn the Rest, from doing it. Auditory, visual, and kinestetic learning criteria satisfied. :\
Other than that, i had a really nice dream, this afternoon. I keep meaning to get into a regiment of excercise, after i get home from work, but i keep passing out, for at least 10 minutes, then not wanting to do Anything, but eat and watch tv, after that. Today, though, i slept for ten minutes, and it felt like an hour or More. And that dream Rocked.
Keeping myself wrapped in a cloak of change, i move on. Later, kids.
