I don't know what's wrong with me.
I promised not to think negative thoughts during Lent, but occasionally they do cross my mind.
My co-worker seems to think that because the economy is bad you should not think of ways to advance yourself. I seem to think the opposite. I think maybe it's time you restructure yourself and find a way to make yourself better professionally, maybe go back to school, advance your skill because the market is tougher with more people in the marketplace so this may be a good time to sharpen your skill. This is what I told her. Instead she responsded that, you cannot sharpen your skill when you are at a current job you can only do that if you've been laid off. We can only sit tight and wait out the economy. I disagreed but I didn't air my opinion.
Why didn't I? I was already thinking negatively at that point, thinking, not many people are ambitious and if someone is not as ambitious as you are, you really shouldn't be having these types of career-oriented conversations with them.
But the reality of the matter is, people like me that fight hard, work hard, endeavor to stay ahead of the game, we don't get to where we want to thus far, and people like her that are lackadaisical about their careers, their careers just get to work out. Maybe it's part of God telling us not to worry and Ne will take care of everything, or just sheer luck. But me, I run around, try my best, do my best and I still do not get as far as I have hoped. But others just get there by chance.
However, that is a negative thought and I'd promised not to do those anymore, remember.
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