Quote Originally Posted by chips and underwear View Post
Maybe a little too Te. Ha!

Sometimes it's difficult to take the initiative and start new endeavors. Especially when you have no idea if your initiative is wanted or the proper channels to go through to make it happen.
Also, I do best when the expectations are clearly layed out for me. I am welcome to take the initiative and start new endeavors if I choose but I'm not required to.
By nature I tend work hard quietly and do what people expect me to do. I tend not to 'put myself out there' or make splashes. That would probably be in the line more with Se.

I am willing to work hard and go beyond the minimim but I feel like I need the okay from others to do so. I don't want to get in trouble or go over peoples' heads. I don't want some mistake to bite me in the butt later. I don't want to make some serious error that could jepordize my job success and make it even harder to find a job I want in the future.

Maybe I should just stop making so many excuses and just implement some of my ideas already.

I did have one really good idea that I submitted to a manager. I wrote a proposal on how the on-call employees could be better served. She was going to forward it to her boss but I don't think any action was taken on it. She really liked my proposal, thought it was very well thought out but she had to run it through to her boss and get her boss's approval. Plus it's an organization wide change so I don't know how easily implemented the change would be. When you work in a bureaucratic organization, some changes take very long to implement.

On-call employees are not protected by a union. I've actually thought about collaborating with my fellow on-call employees and starting one of our own but I would have no clue how to even go about implementing that and what the ramifications would be. We are a significant portion (about 20%) of the employees. We deserve to be more heard than we are.




People always say things to me like "your time will come", "never give up". "Eventually you will get that job you want."
Well they've been saying that for years and I've been waiting for years and nothing has happened. It seems like it's getting harder and harder the more experience I have ironically. Kind of like, why are you still doing what you're doing after all this time? I think they look down on my experience and think I must not be very good at what I do if piecing together a bunch of miscellaneous part-time jobs is the best I can get.
Let me ask you this:

Which people judge you so harshly? If they are not close kin...why do you care about a bunch of dogs exactly? Or indeed monkeys.