{"id":88,"date":"2004-03-11T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T14:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2004-03-11T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T14:41:25","slug":"taking-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2004\/03\/taking-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking stock"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been exactly four months to the day since I left my job<\/a> at the charity-that-shall-remain-nameless and I’m still feeling the effects of having been there. I start a new job on Monday and all the self-doubt I left my previous position carrying is now creeping back in and haunting me. I half expect to turn and see a little scabrous imp sitting on my shoulder gnashing its teeth while it whispers in my ear.<\/p>\n

The good news is that I’ve come to realize that my problem is that I get caught up, that I let myself believe, as everyone around me seems to believe, that what I’m doing is “vitally important” when, in reality, my mother’s dictum about work is, and always was, correct: <\/p>\n

Work is not your life.<\/h2>\n

Work exists to finance the rest of your life<\/h2>\n

What I’ve had to discover on my own is:<\/p>\n

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  1. While work is work, and it may be not exactly how I’d like to be spending my day, I’m quite attached to the nice money thanks.<\/li>\n
  2. While work is work, and it may be not exactly how I’d like to be spending my day, there’s a big difference between “work” and “sheer hell.”<\/li>\n
  3. There is no shame in demanding adequate compensation for the job I’m asked to do.<\/li>\n
  4. With firm grasp on the difference between work and hell, if it feels like I’m being put upon, I am.<\/li>\n
  5. And, last, but by no means least: if there is no “rest of your life” it’s time to find another job.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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