I don’t think that one’s predicted ability (or lack of it) to succeed in the Peace Corps is necessarily indicative of her ability to succeed in other areas or careers. The OP could easily go on to be successful in other areas that don’t involve working for a nutjob.
Refusing to work for someone who makes you crazy doesn’t make you a “quitter”. We aren’t talking about someone who has a family to support or a household to take care of–she’s a new college graduate, she’s on her own and can take care of her bills for a while. More power to her.
Staying in a horrible situation just because you don’t want to be labelled a quitter is just not smart. And belittling her film-making and her decision to quit this job is flat-out disrespectful. What possible good does anyone expect to achieve by posting that sort of thing?
To clarify
Who said it was? I spoke to one point alone, her once expressed interest in the Peace Corps. That’s it. I really could care less if she succeeds or fails in other endeavors.
Odd, that. Because the sum total of your posts on the subject comes off as very judgemental about her work ethic in general, imo.
But perhaps the terms “quitter” and “little films” threw me.
Maybe I misconstrued rudely stated apathy as outright hostility. I’m not entirely sure which is worse, but as you say, there it is.
Okay, so I was raised by a single teenaged welfare mother in the kind of place where the police helicopters roamed and stabbings, gunfire and theft were everyday occurances. At six I knew how to drop to the floor when I hear loud noises and to stop playing and go inside when the helicopters started using their spotlights. I saw my mom and dad get together again just long enough for him to steal everything of value we owned and sell it for speed. I went to the kind of high school where we’d spend hours pulling fifty year old rusty nails out of the rubble from torn down churches so that we’d have something to build our drama sets out of. I saw most of my friends- many of them A students- become addicted to speed and and drop out. I manage to get into college where I scrape by on financial aid- sometimes without enough money to eat anything but one three-dollar burrito a day (with a free bag of chips to count as the next day’s breakfast)- and spend all my time studying. Even though I am competing with people who have tens of thousands of dollars to spend on their projects, I do my best with the school’s equipment, lots of hard work, and some good friends that don’t mind their only compensation being a bowl of beans or a plate of pasta.
And I manage to graduate with double honors.
And I’m spineless???
So what? You quit a job! You quit a job! That makes you a quitter! Nothing else needs to be taken into consideration. Better stay home and make your “little films” and be thankful for your cushy lifestyle, because a pampered little princess like you would never survive training for the Peace Corps.
cuauhtemoc, exactly. I also noticed the snide “little films” reference.
even, I think you’ve proven yourself to be someone that has guts. It’s your choice whether or not you want to cater to this particular quixotic nutjob. If you don’t, there is absolutely no shame in it.
I think you need to consider the value or lack thereof in generalizing from the specific. It’s frequently not a good idea, you know. For example: “Quit one job” = “You’re a quitter”? Well, put me in the quitter’s category then, along with virtually everyone else I’ve ever met. Of course, what most people (not you apparently – no for you, “nothing” beyond the one job at issue “needs to be taken into consideration” – but most people) mean when they say someone is “a quitter” is that a person has a history of giving up on endeavors without seeing them through and without good reason. Does SVEN have such a history? I don’t know, but more to the point – neither do you. It’s as baseless as reading her last post and then calling her a “pampered little princess”. What’s that based on? The voices in your head?
If you have a job where you are treated badly, or that makes you deeply and consistently unhappy, or where your health or safety is jeopardized, or where the benefit you’re realizing (pay) does not outweigh the negatives you’re accumulating (whatever they may be), then at some point the smart thing to do is quit and move on. If you’ve never been in that spot, then good for you. But that hardly puts you in a position to judge others who haven’t been so lucky.
But I guess when you think you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I’ve re-read that post and YO’s reply, and now I fear that I’ve been wooshed.
[sub]Must adjust sarcasm detector . . . .[/sub]
Jodi, if you read my other posts to this thread it will be obvious that I was being sarcastic. In fact, I think it should’ve been obvious from the tone of the post itself. Why the hell are you giving me grief? I’m not the asshole in this thread, Collounsbury is.
Whoops, you snuck in there while I was composing my reply. Sorry, Jodi, no hard feelings.
Hey what’s the big deal? If your job sucks, just quit AFTER you find a new one. Life’s too short to put up with some assholes bullshit 8-12 hours a day.
Of course, you’ll just have to put up with another assholes diferent bullshit.