Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I hope to be more honest and forthcoming in this blog in the future. I sometimes fear that I’m a little too hedge-y and noncommittal, but then I’m also terrified that I might veer too far into TMI territory. But this year promises so many changes in my life that I don’t think I can avoid wandering into quite personal territory. Thanks for your good thoughts. I’ll need them!

Salut,
Marjorie

Well, it was my choice to quit, but I happily and completely admit that I “failed” in fulfilling my job responsibilities. Were the responsibilities excessive? Probably. But that’s not for me to say.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with failure at all. I do think that we Americans tend to have such a strong aversion to the mere word “failure” that we run the other way anytime we catch even just a whiff of it. Failure is perfectly honorable, and if it means that we save ourselves in the long run, well by golly, may I fail more often.

Salut,
Marjorie

As a former cube-dweller myself, I completely understand. You know, I know of quite a few people who have spent their entire working lives in an office and are quite content with their station, and I’m so deeply envious of them. The security, the steady paycheck, the status they have in society that’s unquestioned…who wouldn’t want that?

But like you, I’m just not wired that way, and although it’s taken me awhile to realize it, I’ve come to accept it. I also am well aware how extremely lucky I am to have a husband who happily supports me in pursuing my dream, even though he himself is another one of those cube-dwellers with an antipathy towards the Peter Gibbons life.

I wish us both luck in our endeavors! Succeed or fail, at least we did it on our own terms, eh?

Salut,
Marjorie

Take it from a cube dweller, taking the work with you is far better than spending 40 hours a week in a cube. I’m painfully aware that those are hours of my life that are being wasted at a job for which I have zero passion.

I hope I’ll be out soon. I have to build up my business to a certain level first, but I’m ready to leave the steady paycheck behind. It’s just not worth what I have to trade for it. I think if you are okay with being an employee (and there’s nothing wrong with it–in fact, I wish I was wired that way so I wouldn’t get so frustrated), it sounds melodramatic. But when you know you aren’t supposed to be in a cube or in another work environment…when you want your own business that fulfills you…it’s soul-sucking to feel like you’ve become Peter Gibbons.

Gosh, and many thanks for the compliment! I’ll check out Share This and see if I can add that to the site. I’d like to add more RSS readers, but when I tried that in the past I had some complaints about having too many listed and how they looked cluttered. Happy to add Bloglines, though!

Salut,
Marjorie