Dropping Acid | Career Angles

When I was in high school in New York, I was required to take a chemistry class as part of the curriculum. There was this one class where we were asked to take a few drops of acid from a beaker and deposit it on something. I remember all the bubbling and foaming where I had placed the drops until the acid accomplished its goal of eating through the item.

Most of us have excess acid in our system that eats us up from the inside.

Maybe you drop the acid of not being good enough or worthy and don’t believe in yourself in an interview. You may adopt the strategy of trying to “fake it until you make it” but, when you think about it, it may have slowed the drip for a little while but hasn’t made it go stop.

Maybe you drop the acid of being “nice” or that “people should recognize me for what I do for them,” or “they are all idiots who can’t hold a candle to me.”

All of these are corrosive attitudes that invariable cause others to fail to meet our expectations and turn us against them or ourselves.

I remember working at an agency some years ago where the acid of envy was eating me up, causing me to speak ill of colleagues to myself and outside the firm, poisoning my attitude. All they are doing is flipping unscreened resumes to clients or getting everyone to work on their jobs so they are filled and…