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  • in reply to: Dealing with Mother #269861
    SraTB
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    Thank you for understanding, Valora.

    in reply to: Dealing with Mother #269815
    SraTB
    Participant

    Anita, thank you for your reply. I wasn’t referring to my mother when I was talking about being looked after. I really do not hold  her responsible for my failings – your mention of intelligence and judgment. I do understand your point about not submitting to her aggression, but I also want her to know she has my support and sympathy.  I was asking for a way to balance the two.

    Valora, thank you for replying. She won’t talk to anyone. My sibling has no patience with her. I don’t approve of his attitude either. I worry for her health. I worry that any opposition I present will be the cause of some shock/illness for her because she’s feeling very vulnerable. I do intend not to engage with her on certain subjects.

    in reply to: Leaving Work After 24 years – How to be Occupied #214827
    SraTB
    Participant

    Yes, thanks, Anita.

    in reply to: Leaving Work After 24 years – How to be Occupied #214611
    SraTB
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    Yes, of course I intend finding part-time employment, all the anxiety is wondering how long it will take and how to go about it and what to do when I feel discouraged.

    in reply to: Leaving Work After 24 years – How to be Occupied #214481
    SraTB
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    Hi Anita and Shuying, thanks for your replies.

    Anita: By personality, I mean I wish I don’t find it so difficult to ask for introductions, cold-call someone and tell them I’m available to work, and such. Outside world: Now that I’m no longer in a familiar environment, would I still be the same inhibited, reluctant person or would I throw inhibition away and go about asking people for help, leads for work/projects, which I don’t usually do. I’m afraid of rejection because it makes me feel hopeless immediately. Karma, law of attraction: I can only say this much that I hope the LoA works. I try to keep a positive visualisation in mind ever since I began exploring it. Karma, well, I haven’t really read much about it, nothing serious or philosophical at any rate, but this point I mentioned above, in that context, it does seem reasonable if you equate karma with a pattern of behaviour.

    Shuying: I wish I could be so optimistic. My inner voice, I really don’t know what it’s saying. It’s scolding me, telling me I’m giving up before I begin. I feel like I haven’t got too many lucky breaks and I could use some to feel I’m being looked after. I struggle for every little thing – what should I say, how should I counter this, how should I justify this – so much so that I feel I have neither intelligence nor judgment left.

    What I really want – to never regret this decision I’ve taken. To find life full of things to do, and to be peaceful and content doing it, to not let life snub me. I left this job because it felt like it was taking over my life, and I didn’t even like it, and I just needed to escape. It was making me diffident about skills I was once confident of. I did not leave with any plan or bigger goal, except to relax and do things at my own pace, and the redundancy settlement is a silver lining of giving up the job I had. It is a modest amount but I am not unhappy. Now I am worried about taking it easy, wondering if I’ll count for anything professionally in the future. I am very clear that I don’t want to retire from work, just take it slower. Opt for part-time and projects rather than full time.

    I am leaving the workplace on a good note. I will miss it, the ambience, the banter. Just not the work.

    I do have farewell ideas 🙂

     

    in reply to: Leaving Work After 24 years – How to be Occupied #214307
    SraTB
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    What I’ve said earlier, look for something to do. Keep trying, but am afraid I’ll be put off by rejection, and I don’t want the rejection to happen because I don’t trust myself to stay strong. I’m thinking of non-profit work as well, but as a stop gap.

    Sometimes I think – if I couldn’t get what I wanted/become who I wanted to in a workplace that became home, in a way, can I get it outside? Can I change my personality? Or will the unfamiliarity of the outside world I’m about to enter make me react differently, ask for opportunities more boldly, persevere? Someone once told me that merely changing jobs won’t help as our karma follows us and we make the same mistakes everywhere. Someone else said a change of scene can help us make fresh beginnings.

    If I need to be an independent operator, I need to ask people if they want my services, contact people and see if they have any leads – that is a whole new life awaiting me. I keep thinking I may succeed here and there but then again, I don’t know how long it will take. I also don’t want to go back to the old job – if there’s an offer – in a hurry. That would be proof of failure, I’m thinking. Actually, even writing all this makes me feel like I’m compounding the negativity, but I need some solution to stop feeling this way.

     

    in reply to: Leaving Work After 24 years – How to be Occupied #214277
    SraTB
    Participant

    Thank you, Anita, for responding, and your correct interpretation of my situation.  About a month ago, I was actually quite looking forward to the free time, the search for a project/ part-time gig and all that – I even surprised myself by feeling that way, because I’m not optimistic by nature or someone who enjoys challenges. But I don’t know why, it doesn’t excite me now. All I can think is, how will I live the rest of my life without something solid to do? And if every assignment I seek ends in failure?

    I understand why you said I should have a daily routine, but I feel it isn’t enough. I need to be doing something external – like work for someone or get published, be useful – to feel worth it.

    It may be jitters, but I fear I may come up against walls. I was telling myself I would travel a bit but the thought doesn’t excite me now. I feel I should be looking for something to do, not enjoying myself, and that every day spent in pleasure/relaxation will drive me further away from a productive life.

    in reply to: Leaving Work After 24 years – How to be Occupied #214075
    SraTB
    Participant

    Well, the plan is to de-stress first but I’m sure I won’t be able to. I’m already looking at resources/places which need these kind of jobs to be done. And I’m sure there will be quite a bit of rejection or silence from the people I approach, not least because I might be too senior or qualified – that’s the disappointment part. I have been looking for jobs in these areas since the last year but with little response.
    I also am toying with the idea of getting qualified in a completely different field just because it would give me something to do for a few days, but it’s very expensive, I’m not even sure I’m serious about it or can build up a practice. I’m not someone who can sell myself – which is why I haven’t been successful in the way I wanted to be.
    I’m not too worried about money. I can survive if I’m prudent – but I want to earn because people are going to think – and say – that I threw it all away – and I don’t want to go on having to explain or contradict that.

     

     

    in reply to: Leaving Work After 24 years – How to be Occupied #214065
    SraTB
    Participant

    Hi Anita,

    Writing first, and rewriting. I have no firm plans, except vague plans to pursue #1 as a larger life goal and write about subjects I always wanted to but could not (as I had to be mindful of my primary work demands)  and #2 to make some money, to get by and keep myself occupied. Here again, I have no committed offers. I just plan to take some time off and see what the market is like. Long journey ahead for which I don’t know if I have the patience and the strength to weather disappointments.

    in reply to: Leaving Work After 24 years – How to be Occupied #213935
    SraTB
    Participant

    I have to add that I also saw myself going nowhere in this job. It had been my ambition to be known for a certain talent,  while I came to be sought after for another. These demands were weighing me down, and I felt like one of my major “attractions” was how I could be a replacement for whoever went away and left an empty space behind – and that didn’t make me feel good.

    in reply to: Does Law of Attraction Work for Non-Vegetarians? #158728
    SraTB
    Participant

    Isra, thanks a lot for your reply. It is reassuring.

    Regards,

    Sra

     

     

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