Comments on: Not that ambitious. http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/ Version 2 - These are my opinions, and I don't mind sharing Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Marie D. http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-37 Marie D. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:46:29 +0000 http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-37 @ Elsie: welcome here and thanks for your post! So far everybody has been to busy as to remind me of that training thing, and I've kept it silent. Sometimes I feel like I should really play low-profile not to encourage them, but well I still have to do my job. I think the day I'll have a steady side-business, the answer for me will be to take some 'easy' day-job just as you do, but now is too soon (on the other hand, being so busy with my current job does not leave me much time to build my business, that is a dilemma...) @ Elsie: welcome here and thanks for your post! So far everybody has been to busy as to remind me of that training thing, and I’ve kept it silent. Sometimes I feel like I should really play low-profile not to encourage them, but well I still have to do my job. I think the day I’ll have a steady side-business, the answer for me will be to take some ‘easy’ day-job just as you do, but now is too soon (on the other hand, being so busy with my current job does not leave me much time to build my business, that is a dilemma…)

]]> By: Elsie http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-34 Elsie Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:57:25 +0000 http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-34 I just found your blog through The Anti 9 to 5 Guide, and I couldn't agree with you more. Between my blogs, my web business, and my writing (fiction and screenwriting), I'm busier than my married friends! I'm looking at a return to the corporate world to supplement my income, and I'm not looking forward to it for this very reason. Employees, especially single ones, are expected to behave as though all their desires in life are contained within the four walls of a cubicle. The answer for me has been that I've sacrificed earning potential by taking undemanding jobs. Yes, that's hurt my piggy bank, but at least my desire to leave on the dot at 5:00 is never questioned. I'm curious as to how this situation has worked out for you, whether they've kept pushing the additional job training on you or not. I'd say that you should be honest with them and tell them that you're happy where you are and don't want to climb higher on the corporate ladder, but from what they said, I suspect that they don't care what you want, just how you can fit into their game plan. <a href="http://singletude.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Singletude</a> I just found your blog through The Anti 9 to 5 Guide, and I couldn’t agree with you more.

Between my blogs, my web business, and my writing (fiction and screenwriting), I’m busier than my married friends!

I’m looking at a return to the corporate world to supplement my income, and I’m not looking forward to it for this very reason. Employees, especially single ones, are expected to behave as though all their desires in life are contained within the four walls of a cubicle.

The answer for me has been that I’ve sacrificed earning potential by taking undemanding jobs. Yes, that’s hurt my piggy bank, but at least my desire to leave on the dot at 5:00 is never questioned.

I’m curious as to how this situation has worked out for you, whether they’ve kept pushing the additional job training on you or not. I’d say that you should be honest with them and tell them that you’re happy where you are and don’t want to climb higher on the corporate ladder, but from what they said, I suspect that they don’t care what you want, just how you can fit into their game plan.

Singletude

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]]> By: Marie D. http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-16 Marie D. Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:51:32 +0000 http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-16 @ Monish: missing the student life is one thing that I can understand, it is a feeling I had at some point a couple of years ago and I did get back to evening school! That is how I know that, despite the motivation, it is a hard thing to do when you're working full time, and that I don't want to do it agin. Indeed there's so much to do/be outside of work! @ Zandria: I'd love my bosses to think the same LOL. Actually I told them my decision last Wednesday, insisting on the fact that I wouldn't be able to live on that thiht and intense time schedule and keep the good work going at the same time. They agreed but said that "we would need to find alternative possibilities" which mean they WANT me to get some kind of training anyway. This is quite upsetting to me because I know they have something in mind, it is MY life, and they just won't tell why it is so important for them that I get some other degree while they are perfectly happy with what I am delivering now. They think about my future without talkin g with me and I don't like that. @ Monish: missing the student life is one thing that I can understand, it is a feeling I had at some point a couple of years ago and I did get back to evening school! That is how I know that, despite the motivation, it is a hard thing to do when you’re working full time, and that I don’t want to do it agin. Indeed there’s so much to do/be outside of work!

@ Zandria: I’d love my bosses to think the same LOL. Actually I told them my decision last Wednesday, insisting on the fact that I wouldn’t be able to live on that thiht and intense time schedule and keep the good work going at the same time. They agreed but said that “we would need to find alternative possibilities” which mean they WANT me to get some kind of training anyway. This is quite upsetting to me because I know they have something in mind, it is MY life, and they just won’t tell why it is so important for them that I get some other degree while they are perfectly happy with what I am delivering now. They think about my future without talkin g with me and I don’t like that.

]]> By: Zandria http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-15 Zandria Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:11:40 +0000 http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-15 I think it's absolutely fine to be "not that ambitious" when it comes to your job. It's a JOB, after all -- unless you really love it and want to be there forever, you don't have to give it your all just because people in power expect you to. Do what YOU think is right! I think it’s absolutely fine to be “not that ambitious” when it comes to your job. It’s a JOB, after all — unless you really love it and want to be there forever, you don’t have to give it your all just because people in power expect you to. Do what YOU think is right!

]]> By: monish http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-14 monish Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:31:30 +0000 http://itsmylife2.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/not-that-ambitious/#comment-14 Hi Marie..Thats so interesting. I often think of going back to school, not necessarily because I might need the degree but I miss being a student, being able to feel like you're learning all the time. Also, I agree, I'd hate to be defined by my job also. There's so much I aspire to do besides being successful at work! Hi Marie..Thats so interesting. I often think of going back to school, not necessarily because I might need the degree but I miss being a student, being able to feel like you’re learning all the time. Also, I agree, I’d hate to be defined by my job also. There’s so much I aspire to do besides being successful at work!

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