Comments on: Theme of The Week http://www.shaicoggins.com/theme-of-the-week/ Digital Lifestyle for Creative, Content & Community Folks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shai Coggins http://www.shaicoggins.com/theme-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-692 Shai Coggins Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:57:56 +0000 http://www.shaicoggins.com/wordpress/?p=180#comment-692 Wow, Bill, thanks for sharing (and for your kind words)! You definitely made a lot of interesting points and shared some good insights here. Good luck with the new job. I hope it all goes well. Do tell me how it works out for you! :-) Wow, Bill, thanks for sharing (and for your kind words)! You definitely made a lot of interesting points and shared some good insights here. Good luck with the new job. I hope it all goes well. Do tell me how it works out for you! :-)

]]> By: bill h http://www.shaicoggins.com/theme-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-691 bill h Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:20:10 +0000 http://www.shaicoggins.com/wordpress/?p=180#comment-691 how interesting...i'm starting a new job tomorrow as an employee of a large corporation. something i swore i would never do again...back in 1998 when i quit my last job as a sales mgr. for a company i loved, in an industry i was absolutely passionate about, selling products and services i deeply believed in. one day i just had enough. enough of what? the list is endless. pretty much the same things you mention above. well, after almost eight years of being my own boss freelancing, contracting, or owning one business or another i found myself in the not so unusual position of needing a regular reliable paycheck. as my job search ensued, i found myself thinking back to my last "job" and pondering just what it was that drove me over the edge, and i had to laugh. because after all these years of having to take responsibility for everything, and having to learn, how can i say, to prioritize my battles, or maybe to not take anything personally (hard to do when you really care about what's going on)... most of the things that seemed so important back then are pretty much meaningless now. things i chastise others for wasting their valuable time or emotional energy on. at the end of the day, the biggest thing that drove me over the edge was me. so, maybe it comes with maturity, or raising children, or just age and fatigue. i simply don't have the energy to get upset anymore. besides, it's my life, it's my mind....i prefer happiness. and what a wonderful feeling when i realized that happiness is a choice. don't get me wrong, i'm not perfect. i have bad days. but, i know what to do to make it better. i don't know if i came to the great philosophical epiphany that fear drives all that other stuff or if i just decided that life is short and i'd rather be happy. it's a far more productive state of being, and besides, it feels good. i just linked over to read the details of your new job. maybe part time is the answer. i assume you are being employed by a clinic or a practice of some sort... in any case, we shall soon see if my great experience and wisdom will serve me in good stead. or if i'm deluding myself and i'm just a control freak who has to be in the driver's seat. six months will tell. haha. as for common themes...it is my experience that many times when i find myself seeing the same thing/issue/problem in other people, it is a reflection of myself and the way i am looking. often times looking in the mirror clearly is the hardest thing to do. in other words, sometimes when i look around and it seems like "everyone is (blank)", it's me that is applying the same lens to what i see. not that this is exactly what you describe, but...often it is whatever current life lesson i am working on or struggling with at that point in my growth that i look around and notice where other people are in terms of that issue. but...in any case... oh my god. i just realized i have to wear a suit tomorrow. dear lord, what was i thinking? and it's almost 7pm. my but it's getting late... here's to another six months of enrgised labour for both of us. nice artwork. keep it up. cheers. how interesting…i’m starting a new job tomorrow as an employee of a large corporation. something i swore i would never do again…back in 1998 when i quit my last job as a sales mgr. for a company i loved, in an industry i was absolutely passionate about, selling products and services i deeply believed in. one day i just had enough. enough of what? the list is endless. pretty much the same things you mention above.

well, after almost eight years of being my own boss freelancing, contracting, or owning one business or another i found myself in the not so unusual position of needing a regular reliable paycheck. as my job search ensued, i found myself thinking back to my last “job” and pondering just what it was that drove me over the edge, and i had to laugh. because after all these years of having to take responsibility for everything, and having to learn, how can i say, to prioritize my battles, or maybe to not take anything personally (hard to do when you really care about what’s going on)… most of the things that seemed so important back then are pretty much meaningless now. things i chastise others for wasting their valuable time or emotional energy on. at the end of the day, the biggest thing that drove me over the edge was me. so, maybe it comes with maturity, or raising children, or just age and fatigue. i simply don’t have the energy to get upset anymore. besides, it’s my life, it’s my mind….i prefer happiness. and what a wonderful feeling when i realized that happiness is a choice. don’t get me wrong, i’m not perfect. i have bad days. but, i know what to do to make it better. i don’t know if i came to the great philosophical epiphany that fear drives all that other stuff or if i just decided that life is short and i’d rather be happy. it’s a far more productive state of being, and besides, it feels good.

i just linked over to read the details of your new job. maybe part time is the answer. i assume you are being employed by a clinic or a practice of some sort…

in any case, we shall soon see if my great experience and wisdom will serve me in good stead. or if i’m deluding myself and i’m just a control freak who has to be in the driver’s seat. six months will tell. haha.

as for common themes…it is my experience that many times when i find myself seeing the same thing/issue/problem in other people, it is a reflection of myself and the way i am looking. often times looking in the mirror clearly is the hardest thing to do. in other words, sometimes when i look around and it seems like “everyone is (blank)”, it’s me that is applying the same lens to what i see. not that this is exactly what you describe, but…often it is whatever current life lesson i am working on or struggling with at that point in my growth that i look around and notice where other people are in terms of that issue. but…in any case…

oh my god. i just realized i have to wear a suit tomorrow. dear lord, what was i thinking? and it’s almost 7pm. my but it’s getting late…

here’s to another six months of enrgised labour for both of us. nice artwork. keep it up. cheers.

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