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Thriving under extreme stress and difficult cirumstances...
- Thread starter Have Hope
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WOW. I was contacted by a recruiter for a senior-level director role that would nearly double my salary.... she feels I am a good fit and is forwarding my resume to the company after speaking with me on Friday. I am beyond thrilled! This is just the kind of opportunity I've been waiting for.... and wanting.. which would allow me to move beyond what I do now and into more of what I'm really interested in -- more relating to web design and website usability. Fingers are crossed!!!!
Having someone walk up to you and offer to double your wages is something you cannot walk away from. Have had someone offer me a job but it was below what I am making now. When someone offers you a real job without asking, you are in the big leagues and never forget that my friend 
I think you will get the job. When your in a professional employment, it is unwise to make a laterally shift from one company to another unless your sure the company is in trouble. I have been gun shy with any new employee who has made a laterally move from another company, and more so if they are saying their former company is in bad shape. I do not know if we have a ideal coworker or a coworker from a bad company with bad company work ethics. Advancement, is ideal as the company looks to be growing and wants new blood and new ideas from other companies. The way I am feeling this, if you get this job, it looks like a company you want to stay with until retirement.
WOW. On another mental health forum I posted something similar about this new job opportunity and about being very excited about it. I wrote that it's a far cry from when I was hospitalized five years ago with a breakdown (ie, the fact that I am doing so well now).
And this one member wrote the most discouraging thing -- he was trying to make me afraid of another breakdown if I take on too much stress by moving up professionally.
What a jerk & what a way to be supportive -- trying to instill fear in me that I may have another breakdown, when in fact, I am thriving professionally. I am so tired of it. Maybe I'll leave that forum too. This seems to be the only good mental health forum that exists!!! I'm exasperated.
And this one member wrote the most discouraging thing -- he was trying to make me afraid of another breakdown if I take on too much stress by moving up professionally.
What a jerk & what a way to be supportive -- trying to instill fear in me that I may have another breakdown, when in fact, I am thriving professionally. I am so tired of it. Maybe I'll leave that forum too. This seems to be the only good mental health forum that exists!!! I'm exasperated.
@Have Hope
I understand, he is the man and he sees you as the female. Yes, you are a woman but he thinks of you as the female. I do not get that in my social group, but get that from strangers and more so within rural communities. When it is a stranger, and I will never have to deal with him again. I put that son of a bitch in his place. I tell him were I went to college, my degree, what I do in my employment, and my yearly income -- in general, that shuts him up and he walks away. If he starts to bitch more about being a man, well, I never lived in New York City but I have been there a great deal. And I am not afraid of going into a New York City pissing contest. In general, I am not rude, but when I am rude, he is going to find out what this female can say.
I understand, he is the man and he sees you as the female. Yes, you are a woman but he thinks of you as the female. I do not get that in my social group, but get that from strangers and more so within rural communities. When it is a stranger, and I will never have to deal with him again. I put that son of a bitch in his place. I tell him were I went to college, my degree, what I do in my employment, and my yearly income -- in general, that shuts him up and he walks away. If he starts to bitch more about being a man, well, I never lived in New York City but I have been there a great deal. And I am not afraid of going into a New York City pissing contest. In general, I am not rude, but when I am rude, he is going to find out what this female can say.
UGh. I just had to take two personality tests for this job that pays so well, plus a math skills and intelligence test. The latter test timed out before I could finish. Now I'm worried I won't even make it to the interview stage. If that's the case, then I wouldn't want a job that eliminates good candidates based solely on tests. Hmmph!