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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 3rd day of the 34th week, the 22nd day of the 8th month, the 234th day of 2017, and:
- National Bao Day
- National Be an Angel Day
- National Eat a Peach Day
- National Pecan Torte Day
- National Tooth Fairy Day
- Never Bean Better Day
- Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
- Take Your Cat to the Vet Day
ON THIS DAY: In 392 Arbogast had Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. In 1639 Madras (now Chennai) India was founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. In 1654 Jacob Barsimson arrived in New Amsterdam; he is the first known Jewish immigrant to America. In 1864 twelve nations signed the First Geneva Convention. In 1865 William Sheppard was issued the first US patent for liquid soap. In 1902 the Cadillac Motor Company was founded. In 1978 the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the US Congress -- the proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the US Constitution - but the proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38). In 1989 Nolan Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. In 2004 versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, were stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. In 2017 eye doctors experienced a huge uptick in scheduled appointments.
Quote of the day:
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.”
~ Jim Rohn American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker.
I went through a phase in my career where I was all about organizational development and personal improvement. I embraced knowledge management and the free agent nation, which were on the cutting edge some 20+ years ago. I did public speaking, I devoured management books, I was an active agent of change, I was charged up and ready to go. That quote would’ve been something that I preached – live your life strongly and head out full speed ahead!
So what happened?
When my job was phased out at TWSB, and I went with MainStreet Lender, within a few weeks I realized they had hired a worker-bee, and that I had a job, not a career. I moved from management, from being part of strategic planning and setting up implementation, to doing tasks. At first I was unhappy with that, but then I gradually grew accustomed – the business and management books started to gather dust, since they would not permit me to travel for speaking on company time but required me to use PTO, the speaking engagements dried up, and slowly I stopped engaging even online. By the time I lost the job at the beginning of the recession, I had lost my edge and I knew it.
There are indeed times when I do miss being in “career” mode and regret having settled down into “job” mode. But you know what? I’m not sure that I know how to put it, but there are a lot of jobs to be done and someone has to do them, neh? I never, at my most gung-ho, lived to work, I always worked to live....
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