August 23, 2006
The Week of Restoring Myself
Peaceful Pond Bella Vista Highlands Gold Course
post started Aug 8 2006
I made a decision to take the week off from overtime. This has not been easy to do there is immense peer pressure to stay as long as you passively stand it and work till you drop. My employers keep adding little chores for me to do in addition to my daily work... The words " this will only take a few minutes" have become a sort of joke...Made popular by yours truly, who had the audacity to say " Look I am running out of minutes here... There aren't enough minutes in my day to do all of this stuff..." I am Dilbert without a tie...
I had a good reason to take this time out. This past week was our church's first Vacation Bible School. There were kids there from 2 to 92 and each and every age has a class to go to. Pastor David had charge of us "adults" and every night was like a mini retreat. I found myself begining to relax in the evenings, and my focus less and less on my job.
In other words, I am slowly restoring myself...my life...
August 23
Two weeks later, I pick up this post and am pleased to report that I have been able to continue, get into work on time and leave on time. Changes in the team have seen more work taken off of me and I have been able to focus and do an overall better job.
But we havent made the grade. We are close, but that may not be enough. The morale is at an alltime low. Last saturday, I worked for the whole team and I saw that I wasnt the only person that was overwelmed, I found myself becomming angry and resentful that I have been flogged verbally to get to a certain level and others have not. The issues that I saw would have been enough to bring our performance down to the level that would cause us to loose the account.
Woody is still plugging away at the job search. He has had some dissapointment but is remaining undaunted. He has had some interesting opportunities. Our growing community is nearly ready to enjoy the grand opening of a very lard upper end indoor mall and shopping complex. Several national jewelry chains are going in there and need quality talent to work in the stores, Woody interviewed for several of them and that looks very promising. Also he was contacted by a contact that now workd for the new Toyota dealership in town and he interviewed there yesterday. I feel like he is going to get something soon and praised his dilligence on this unemployment go round.
I take my walk and I think about what I want to do with my life. I feel like I want to get to a place where I can do what I want to do. I am praying all of the time and hopw to know soon what way I should go
