Now, you question your mid-level manager position with room for exponential growth that not only sustains you, but allows you to pay for overpriced brunch every Sunday with people you don’t like, but can tolerate with bottomless mimosas. Life is no longer a movie as your Instagram caption suggests.
Staring at myself in the mirror, tying my tie for my work, I realized that this was one of the many skills my mother taught me before I reached adolescence. As the fabric twists between my fingers – over and under, around and through, eventually forming a knot – I …
“Wow, it has to be 120 degrees out here,” I thought to myself. In fact, my guess was probably not far off because, after all, it was Phoenix, Arizona in the middle of the summer and the cement dock that I worked on was an excellent insulator. Whatever the temperature …
I oopsed my way into the fraternity because I wasn’t good at saying no or quitting things. I have this issue with letting people down and not doing what I said I was going to do. I’m not perfect, every one of my ex-girlfriends will tell you that, but for the most part I’m glued to my commitments and my word is solid.
I am a classic introvert. I will leave your party early to go home and clean my shoes. It has nothing to do with your lituation and everything to do with my need to not get my energy zapped for 2 days because I wanted to turn up for 2 hours.
