So the job search journey comes to an end… no, a pause. Because I don’t believe there are any ends in life, just times when you can stop and breathe for a bit.
I got a job offer. Actually, I got two this week. The first was from a place that would have been interesting, but the second was from the place I reallly wanted to work. The one where I came away from the interview feeling like I had met “my people” – people who think like me, I guess. I just felt comfortable with them.
It’s always a little scary to start a new thing, but there is much relief in having this chance to breathe again. And having a chance to start anew and decide how I want to approach things.
I know that sometimes there can be great demotivators in place at work: non-existent reward systems, unclear goals, unreasonable demands. I believe I was once expected to read my boss’s mind… With this blog, I hope to help people who are navigating those troubled waters and show them the floaty toys that will keep them bobbing along.
I feel like this will be a chance to be motivated again, to feel creative and excited. I might even try some new things. I know nobody is reading this blog, but if you do some day, I would like to know what kinds of things you thought you might be able to do in your job when it was new, and how many of those things you have been able to accomplish.
I want to find my good-to-great path. Good to Great is a book by Jim Collins – take a look if you get a chance. It’s an interesting look at the differences between companies that do okay and the ones that really hit the jackpot, financially and managerially. I think a lot of it can apply at a personal level as well.
Most of us manage to have good-enough lives, through occassional successes at love, work, and play. But some people seem to have that extra bit of luck, or passion, that makes what they do into something great, something extraordinary. I want to find that extra something that works for me.