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As dear ~inquiry said of my last entry
that's a lotta everything but fun
I shall try for a little fun tonight.
I've been doing a fairly reactive job for 8 years, same task, but different systems, different managers, evolving teams.
I now *need* and want to be more proactive, planned project work (all interesting stuff).
I am finding this change of attitude(?) difficult. I think it's actually effected my un-work life too.
Any thoughts?
Maybe a demonstration of my lack of knowledge of English, or my age but I wanted to include the female equivalent of fellows in my opening but on looking it up I discover it applies to both the fair sex as well.
Maybe I am only used to seeing it in the context of men: 'Fellowship of the Ring" etc. Colleges offer Fellowships which - I guess - until recently would have only been awarded to males.
Am I showing my age?
I just wanted to use a friendly inclusive phrase for all the regulars - and irregulars - at the midnight.
Writing these irrelevant posts helps while in bed trying to wind down.
I might have to resurrect my idea of mapping the alleyway, shame so dark out there.
It comes to mind that "proactive, planned" is arguably more ego-centric than "reactive", thus more likely fraught with the frustrations of egoism, e.g. agony of over "choice" (for you, know, having/being "free will"), missing the here/now for being mentally lost in modeling/planning future matters.
Spelled out a bit:
Q1: What do you need to do in advance of reactive job events?
A1: Next to nothing, because there's little to do until there's an event to react to.
Q2: What do you need to do in advance of proactive, planned job events?
A2: Model/anticipate the future, keep said mental models alive (see also: mind/memory entropy avoidance), plan for the possibility of varieties of combinations of event components, creating backup and/or "What if the Part D modeling was faulty?" plans - and then probably having to be reactive on various fronts anyway just because our modeling is often ego-biased for how much "proactive, planned" requires imagining being a free-willed self to begin with, etc., etc.
In a way, we're talking the difference between being "here/now" and being "there/then".
So, where/when do you mostly want to be? ;-)