2005: One Important Lesson

It's that time of year again.  This is when we try to assess the past year to determine if we have met our goals or just wasted valuable oxygen for someone who would have used it better.  Many of us like to define our yearly goals with resolutions as a demarcation in our lives to say, "From this point on things will be different!  I will be faster, better, stronger!"  In all likelihood we end up fatter, mediocre and looking for the remote!  I personally do NOT make New Years resolutions for the simple fact that I don't need another reason to disappoint myself. 

 

I like to think of myself as a forward looking person who (hopefully) has learned a thing or two from the past.  One of the biggest lessons I learned this year is that I don't have to love the job I'm doing but I can't hate it.  Huge lesson!  So I beg anyone out there who is working at a job they loathe, you have to get out of there!  It will poison your soul!  Then you will die and come back as a bitter civil service worker.  I was just at the DMV yesterday renewing my license plate sticker.  That place has got to be purgatory.  There was one woman working the counter and hating life and there were over 30 people waiting.  You tell me that isn't hell...for EVERYONE!!  If I had to make a resolution it would be to avoid government workers at all cost!  Pay your renewals at the currency exchange, through the mail or online.  It may cost a little more but you won't have to wait over an hour for the privilege of getting attitude.