Sarcastic Bastard

so today is a bit of a down day. i had a good day at work, learned some new stuff, and tomorrow morning at 8:30am (well, 7:30 counting the rehearsal) i'll be switching my first show for RBC! it should be fun, and especially cool that the ditz i was shadowing today and yesterday won't be around so much. i couldn't believe this dumb blonde was a switcher...on my first day *I* knew more about it than her! and she got confused very easily. but i digress...everyone there is really nice and i'm happy to be part of the team, even though i'm the youngest by at least a decade!

but back to the "down" part of the day. i got home, happy as a bee, and walked into the apartment to a crying shawna. apparently her job is in jeopardy if she doesn't pass a test on friday. the thing that bothered me most about this is that she was sitting at the computer looking for a new job, as if there was no way she'd be able to pass and had given up already. well, after some consoling and convincing, she's studying now. it saddens me that she thinks she's stupid, just because she sometimes has a harder time remembering things. i know she's capable of it, she just might have to work a little harder than others. but she's so willing to give up and move on, to try and find another job where if she doesn't succeed right away, she'll resign herself to getting fired and repeating the cycle again, and she'll never do what she wants to do. who knows if she can pass the test on friday? she certainly won't if she goes in to work tomorrow and says she won't write it and loses her job. but if she keeps at it, then maybe she will. and if she doesn't, then maybe it just wasn't the right job for her (or the right time in her life for the job).

i'm getting quite philosophical in my twilight years, aren't i? :)

posted by leor @ 18:17