Sometimes these prompts are not enough to warrant a whole post, so here’s a roundup of some short ones!
How my career makes me feel
Gonna go with blogging here: it makes me feel happy. The fact that I can sit here in my house and type things that make a difference in other people’s lives is super rewarding.
My biggest professional goal
Well, at this point it’s really just to get my R.N. and become a nurse. That feels plenty big from where I sit right now!
One word I would describe myself with
Positive: kind.
Not-so-positive: unassertive.
My biggest flaw
Ha, well, as I just said, my unassertiveness.
I am assertive in public and with strangers, but my assertiveness is inversely correlated to how close my relationships are. The closer the relationship, the more likely I am to “go along to get along” rather than being open, honest, and authentic.
Something I think people are too worried about
Stranger danger.
There is so much data out there about how the vast majority of child abuse, child abduction, and child and adult sexual assault is perpetrated by someone who knows the victim or the victim’s family.
And yet, people are so vigilant about strangers and so blind to the possibility that abuse could be perpetrated by someone they know and trust. It’s a misdirection of energy that leads us to regard decent strangers with a distrustful eye while we blithely offer unconditional trust to the people most likely to be perpetrators.
Do strangers sometimes perpetrate these crimes? Sure. But we behave as though it’s mostly strangers when the truth is the other way around.
Want to answer any of these?
Pick and choose what you’d like, or do all five!
How my career makes me feel — hmmm. I think it makes me feel pretty good, although sometimes I think I surprised the people who assumed I would have a career actually doing math and science, rather than working as support staff in a math and science field. I took a lot of math and science in high school and college, but as it turns out, those classes are still useful when working with engineers, as is my English degree, because writing is not emphasized in their engineering education, which it should be, because they do so much of it.
Biggest professional goal – be the best help possible to a bunch of good, smart guys. Be someone they can count on to have their backs.
One word to describe myself? This sounds like I’m taking an easy way out, but I’m going to say “introvert,” because that one word reveals a lot about a person’s behavior, inner conversations, need for solitude, and more.
Biggest flaw: Being TOO focused on myself.
Something I think people worry too much about: Appearance, and not just physical looks. So much time and energy goes into keeping up appearances. I like being around frugal people because most of us have figured out that it isn’t as important to keep up appearances as people try to make it to be.