It’s Hard | Career Angles

I don’t know about you but when I worked in recruiting as I did for more than 40 years, it was hard to see people as human beings. Often, people were like commodities — someone who is the means to my end of earning a commission.

If I disagreed with a coworker, I became annoyed and, once I allow that to fester a while longer, angry.

If anger festered within my body for very long, it evolved into hatred.

Hatred was hard for me to get rid of.

Anger was hard for me to get rid of.

Feeling hurt by not having support from my employer inflicted regular wounds on my body and psyche.

A bad commute.

An institutional customer who told me something that was not true.

A person who asked for my help in finding a new job who didn’t return my phone call.

Another commuter who walked directly in front of me causing me to stumble.

The phone calls that were not returned

The emails that I never received a response from

The clients who didn’t pay their invoices on time.

There are so many daggers that I felt and yet I continued.