i'm pondering...
I'm feeling suffocated at work. Sometimes it is about the students but most often it is about people who are not willing to pick up the slack and people in higher management who cannot understand how the ground works. The unfortunate thing is, this is common in so many organisations.
On the quiet, I can make excuses for my students and say they're young. To the students of course I play the teacher's role and reprimand if they don't learn responsibility now, they're never going to possess that quality if no one instills that value in them. But what about adults? What excuses can I make for them?
Why are people so concerned about power, being placed in a position of authority? Earning more money? Have I been taught wrong? That the only life worth living is one you are passionate about? Do we really want to go through the motions every single day of our life? I want to earn a living and yet still love the life I lead. Is it idealistic?
Gee, I sound emo like my students. Only not so dramatic in a I-want-to-slash-my-wrists-and-die fashion.
Separately, this colour combination rocks my world at the moment. Ah, the simple things that make me happy.
ps. is it written in a Bosses Manual somewhere that they are allowed to not lift a finger to do anything, have no freaking clue what their staff are working on, yet still have the authority to change their mind, order you to do things and thereafter claim credit for your job done well? Ssh. I think so. It is right there on page 26, section A item no. 197 of the chapter "how to have your cake and eat it."
Toodles.
On the quiet, I can make excuses for my students and say they're young. To the students of course I play the teacher's role and reprimand if they don't learn responsibility now, they're never going to possess that quality if no one instills that value in them. But what about adults? What excuses can I make for them?
Why are people so concerned about power, being placed in a position of authority? Earning more money? Have I been taught wrong? That the only life worth living is one you are passionate about? Do we really want to go through the motions every single day of our life? I want to earn a living and yet still love the life I lead. Is it idealistic?
Gee, I sound emo like my students. Only not so dramatic in a I-want-to-slash-my-wrists-and-die fashion.
Separately, this colour combination rocks my world at the moment. Ah, the simple things that make me happy.
ps. is it written in a Bosses Manual somewhere that they are allowed to not lift a finger to do anything, have no freaking clue what their staff are working on, yet still have the authority to change their mind, order you to do things and thereafter claim credit for your job done well? Ssh. I think so. It is right there on page 26, section A item no. 197 of the chapter "how to have your cake and eat it."
Toodles.