Midnight Pub

Fryday on my mind

~mouse

Happy Friday felllow Pubians

As dear ~inquiry said of my last entry

that's a lotta everything but fun

I shall try for a little fun tonight.

Reactive

I've been doing a fairly reactive job for 8 years, same task, but different systems, different managers, evolving teams.

I now *need* and want to be more proactive, planned project work (all interesting stuff).

I am finding this change of attitude(?) difficult. I think it's actually effected my un-work life too.

Any thoughts?

Fellows

Maybe a demonstration of my lack of knowledge of English, or my age but I wanted to include the female equivalent of fellows in my opening but on looking it up I discover it applies to both the fair sex as well.

Maybe I am only used to seeing it in the context of men: 'Fellowship of the Ring" etc. Colleges offer Fellowships which - I guess - until recently would have only been awarded to males.

Am I showing my age?

I just wanted to use a friendly inclusive phrase for all the regulars - and irregulars - at the midnight.

Forgive my rambles.

Writing these irrelevant posts helps while in bed trying to wind down.

I might have to resurrect my idea of mapping the alleyway, shame so dark out there.

inquiry

It comes to mind that "proactive, planned" is arguably more ego-centric than "reactive", thus more likely fraught with the frustrations of egoism, e.g. agony of over "choice" (for you, know, having/being "free will"), missing the here/now for being mentally lost in modeling/planning future matters.

Spelled out a bit:

Q1: What do you need to do in advance of reactive job events?

A1: Next to nothing, because there's little to do until there's an event to react to.

Q2: What do you need to do in advance of proactive, planned job events?

A2: Model/anticipate the future, keep said mental models alive (see also: mind/memory entropy avoidance), plan for the possibility of varieties of combinations of event components, creating backup and/or "What if the Part D modeling was faulty?" plans - and then probably having to be reactive on various fronts anyway just because our modeling is often ego-biased for how much "proactive, planned" requires imagining being a free-willed self to begin with, etc., etc.

In a way, we're talking the difference between being "here/now" and being "there/then".

So, where/when do you mostly want to be? ;-)

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mouse
"So, where/when do you mostly want to be?"

Sat on the garden bench enjoying the sunshine with a clear conscious.

I think the issue is no actual forward planning done for 2 or more years, and same two years of predictable reactive (?) work.

Ruts get comfy. Or easy to hide in.
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inquiry
> Sat on the garden bench enjoying the sunshine with a clear conscious.

Love the way you put that!

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