We’ll consider my posting (venting) yesterday afternoon to be an unscheduled stop. You know like when you get a flat tire, or the oil light comes on. One of those “Now what’s wrong?” moments. So go to the restroom, stretch your legs, smoke your cig, and the road trip will continue shortly. In the meantime, a friend asked me to post one of the earlier text messages she liked (this was before the whole blog thing).
Here it is:
Those of you who know me well know that my brain is hard wired with random thoughts. Like, "Did Adam and Eve do it doggy style?" or "The first time a man went down on a woman was it so great that he told his buddies and that's how the idea caught on? - cause we like it! Don't look like that you know you wondered too. Any who, I had a random thought this morning that what if I arrived at work and was told I had to interview for my job. Yeah crazy ain't it? But what if you got to work only to discover that you had to go through the interview process like any other applicant for the job you're already doing? What do you think you'd do? Would you walk in with a "this is bullshit attitude"? Would you have a swagger meant to let the other applicants know they don't stand a chance? You know the walk that says these are my peeps, I got this, y'all can go home. Would you walk into that interview like you're interviewing for the first time and want to make a good impression?
Hopefully it's the last one!!
Where is this going? God only knows, but stay with me anyway :-)
How would things change if you approached every day of your life that way? Like a first interview. What if everyday you wanted to make a good impression, put your best face forward, and get the job? Mmmmm......when you think about it, that's what life is - a series of first time interviews. Every time the good Lord blesses you with another day in the vertical position, it's another chance to make a good impression. Not just on Him, but on everyone around you. What kind of an impression did you make this morning? What kind of an impression are you making right now? Scary isn't it?!
But its not too late! You can start right now! Get ready for the interview. Put your best face forward. Plaster a smile on your face, a gleam in your eye, and take life head on. You'll feel better about yourself, more confident. The people around you will see you differently. Treat you differently. YOU'LL TREAT YOU DIFFERENTLY! You'll not only love yourself, you'll like you too! (don't get it twisted the two are very different things....but we'll explore the "like" thing another day :-)
Go on! Show the world what cha got!!
Hopefully it's the last one!!
Where is this going? God only knows, but stay with me anyway :-)
How would things change if you approached every day of your life that way? Like a first interview. What if everyday you wanted to make a good impression, put your best face forward, and get the job? Mmmmm......when you think about it, that's what life is - a series of first time interviews. Every time the good Lord blesses you with another day in the vertical position, it's another chance to make a good impression. Not just on Him, but on everyone around you. What kind of an impression did you make this morning? What kind of an impression are you making right now? Scary isn't it?!
But its not too late! You can start right now! Get ready for the interview. Put your best face forward. Plaster a smile on your face, a gleam in your eye, and take life head on. You'll feel better about yourself, more confident. The people around you will see you differently. Treat you differently. YOU'LL TREAT YOU DIFFERENTLY! You'll not only love yourself, you'll like you too! (don't get it twisted the two are very different things....but we'll explore the "like" thing another day :-)
Go on! Show the world what cha got!!
If I got to work and was told I had to interview? I would bust up in the interview currently in progress, tell him/her to get the hell up because I "ain't got" all day.
ReplyDeleteMy speech would go something like this....
Do you think I have got an hour to waste in here, with you nimrods, when there is a ton of work sitting on my desk and you have the nerve to want to conduct interviews...seriously??
First of all, when you decide to give out your cell number to any number of individuals who are going to call you at all times of the day and night for "advice" on how to do stuff that they have been doing for years -be my guest.
If you want to walk the tight rope with higher ups and you are the low man on the totem pole and have to "order" them to do something? Be my guest!
If you want to deal with the crazy people who come in saying that someone is following them with a "ray gun" and their brain is frying. If you think you can come up with a better response, then put some aluminum foil on the inside of your baseball cap, be my mother f'in guest.
But as for me, myself, and I...I'm not with this getting interviewed bullshit on my busy day of the week.
KICK ROCKS!!!
I would snatch a bottle of water for one of the interviewees (you know they always have water), take a swig and walk the fuck out with the deuce sign...
LOL