We've all probably taken jobs or gotten into situations—be they marriages, cars, or vacations—that were billed as one thing in the beginning and then turned out to be something completely different in the end.
This pattern is probably the norm in fact.
I took my current job for the money, company, and idea that I would be traveliong between Dublin, Bangalore, Singapore for a week a month.
Fast forward to this job today and I am leading projects but I have not traveled outside of the city and I am mostly doing software development. The pay and the company are the same. I am okay with all of these things but they are very different from what I expected coming in.
So I have a choice:
- Stay and "suffer" through what I have in front of me (the status quo)
- "Force" things to change internally either by making phone calls or complaining or continuing to apply pressure (also status quo but with a bit more boat-rocking / risk taking) or
- Leave and look for something elsewhere.
Those are the three basic choices I think we all face in our lives and jobs every day.
We are free.
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