Because what does that mean?
If you make a decision, you’re basing it on what will be best for you, personally.
All “don’t take it personally” means is “we didn’t think beyond ourselves.”
Pretty soon everything in our lives will be owned by corporations,
whose shareholders are most assuredly taking things personally.
They just won’t bother considering anything past their bottom line.
Anyway.
I find myself faced with the unexpected prospect of starting over at my decrepit age.
I’ve never done anything but this job.
I’ve never even worked for someone else before. I have no resume to speak of.
“How do you work on a team?” Don’t know, never had to??
I guess that was still pretty long for the tl;dr??
PinksPosies&Pearls:I know not giving yourself any credit is kind of your thing,
But “self employed since the age of 10″ is still pretty impressive.
You have skills you’re not even considering right now.
Have you thought about what you’ll do next?
ChaoticConcertina:This is going to be incredibly whiny and self pitying, look away.
I don’t want to think about it. I don’t want to DO anything.
I want to stay home and make chili and help my daughter redecorate her bedroom.
I’ve been taking care of other people for more than half my life with no end in sight.
I’ve been taking care of this business my whole life.
I supported my wife, took care of our family while she did her surgical residencies.
And then she took my daughter from me and moved four states away.
Now I take care of my parents. My dad is only going to get worse.
ChaoticConcertina:I’mstilltrying to take care of this business.
I know this is oldest child syndrome and I’m not the only one,
but why am I the ONLY fool capable of making a decision about anything?
About everything. All the decisions are mine.
So of course when something goes wrong, that’s mine too.
I don’t want to do ANYTHING next.
