What sustained you
Wednesday, December the 19th, 2007 Tagged: bitter, disappointment, job search
now makes you weary.
I’m disappointed to report that the group funding my Cambridge gig has decided to pull their support, leaving me a “freshly”-minted doctor without a job. (Is there any other kind?) It’s not so much the science I am going to miss, as I am the opportunities to travel and meet new people.
As I’d expected, even prior to the arrival of this news, my mom had noticed my generally mopey behaviour and talked to me about it; repeatedly. After arguing about it for a while, I eventually said something along the lines of “I’ll start moping less when happier things transpire around me.”
Thankfully, my cheerless demeanour has little to fear from this incident.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
i’m sure something else will come along…and you never know, maybe it’s for the best.
anyway, whenever other people point out that i am mopey, i tend to want to mope around even more.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Something always comes along. They’re the unlucky ones who missed the opportunity to work with you.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 pm
anita: Maybe it will work out to be, I don’t know.
And, I respond quite differently to being called on my moping. I tend to (get a little defensive and) try to rationalise how I feel, hoping that way the other person gets why I am feeling low… and leaves me alone.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
pUl|: Thanks, and something else ought to. I am slowly beginning to work on that.