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I think I'm finally turning the corner on my black mood. As I posted yesterday, I have to start living life again, rather than life living me. I'm not quite sure where I lost my way in the last year or so, but somehow it happened.
I know that this sounds silly, but the first sign I knew that things were horribly wrong was when I realized I didn't want to go to work in the morning. Most people really don't know or understand this, but I *love* my job. I really do. I'm the kind of person that won't work somewhere I don't like. Period. I'd rather be homeless (and have been). So the fact that I just got my 5-year anniversary award from my employer in April says a great deal about how much I enjoy my job.
But somewhere along the line, I started struggling this year. Granted, we've had a lot of management and other changes in the team this year, but for some reason, I had begun to feel out of touch with things.
Luckily, one of the things our new OSM (Operations Service Manager) has done is to institute a mentor program. Well, he recommended that we get mentors. To my knowledge, I'm the only person on the team that has done so. I formalized a relationship I had with a Director with whom I had participated on projects. It has been of great help, and I had a pretty good epiphany regarding things yesterday at work. All of the details are not relevant, nor will I post them here, but a couple of things do apply to the Cam as well, and that piece I'm going to share.
1) Once a problem occurs, assigning blame does not make anything better. At that point, you have to take the lemons and make lemonade.
2) (Corrollary) Pointing fingers and affixing blame in any situation makes you part of the problem.
Bottom line is, we're all human folks. Which means we *all* fuck up from time to time. Rather than getting bent out of shape regarding other people's mistakes, look at the situation, figure out what must be done to correct the problem, and move forward. It really doesn't do any good to beat the person up (physically, emotionally or verbally) over what they did. They probably already feel bad enough as it is, if it's a big thing. And if it's not a big thing, they probably don't even know what happened. Try approaching it from a "training" perspective. "Hey, I just noticed something I think you're not aware of..."
That being said, I'm seriously considering applying for the Arb board. I'd like feedback from all the Cammies that read this. Do you think I'd be a good candidate? Be honest.
Ciao for now.
I know that this sounds silly, but the first sign I knew that things were horribly wrong was when I realized I didn't want to go to work in the morning. Most people really don't know or understand this, but I *love* my job. I really do. I'm the kind of person that won't work somewhere I don't like. Period. I'd rather be homeless (and have been). So the fact that I just got my 5-year anniversary award from my employer in April says a great deal about how much I enjoy my job.
But somewhere along the line, I started struggling this year. Granted, we've had a lot of management and other changes in the team this year, but for some reason, I had begun to feel out of touch with things.
Luckily, one of the things our new OSM (Operations Service Manager) has done is to institute a mentor program. Well, he recommended that we get mentors. To my knowledge, I'm the only person on the team that has done so. I formalized a relationship I had with a Director with whom I had participated on projects. It has been of great help, and I had a pretty good epiphany regarding things yesterday at work. All of the details are not relevant, nor will I post them here, but a couple of things do apply to the Cam as well, and that piece I'm going to share.
1) Once a problem occurs, assigning blame does not make anything better. At that point, you have to take the lemons and make lemonade.
2) (Corrollary) Pointing fingers and affixing blame in any situation makes you part of the problem.
Bottom line is, we're all human folks. Which means we *all* fuck up from time to time. Rather than getting bent out of shape regarding other people's mistakes, look at the situation, figure out what must be done to correct the problem, and move forward. It really doesn't do any good to beat the person up (physically, emotionally or verbally) over what they did. They probably already feel bad enough as it is, if it's a big thing. And if it's not a big thing, they probably don't even know what happened. Try approaching it from a "training" perspective. "Hey, I just noticed something I think you're not aware of..."
That being said, I'm seriously considering applying for the Arb board. I'd like feedback from all the Cammies that read this. Do you think I'd be a good candidate? Be honest.
Ciao for now.
