Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

I read that some “young people” don’t stay in their jobs long. They don’t want to waste their life in something they dislike. Enjoyment often requires time.

No job is enjoyable the first month. Or day or week or six months.

When in a new job, I don’t understand what is really happening.
I don’t understand how I can do something that makes a difference. Nothing makes sense. I am wasting my life, and there is no use doing something I don’t enjoy.

Really?

If I don’t stay long enough, I will never have a “good job,” i.e., one where I make a difference daily and want to “go to work” in the morning.

Funny, in my experience at least, how I learn what is happening, what difference anything makes, and how I can change things for the better. Funny, at least for me, how this takes time. Sometimes six or nine months of time to learn these things.

Perhaps if I were smarter, I would be able to understand all this the first day and decide if I am to leave or how I am to make a difference. For me, at least, I ain’t that smart.