Lady and Peebles
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 05:57 pmThat was just a concentrated explosion of awesome. Rock, rock on, Princess Bubblegum.
As for work, it's been good. I'm slowly getting a little more confident about the job in a general sense. I'm starting to get a little overwhelmed by how many people I need to keep in touch with and help out, but part of that is that a good 70% of my people I talk to are extremely rambly. Keeping that under wraps is difficult, because there's a fine line between "building relationships" and being someone that they can ramble at, and putting my foot down so we actually stay on track.
Most of the time, it's a cool job where I do genuinely feel like I'm helping people. (And I don't mind ALL the rambly stories; some of them are interesting.) But I also have students who are incapable of getting through a call without making a racist remark, and that is painful to sit politely through while steering the conversation rapidly away.
The majority of the sexism I encounter lately is in the workplace around me. Smarmy guy, and nice but still Mormon guy, and careless jock guy, and so on. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's intolerable. Work is work, right?
Anyway. Definitely got an internal timer on this. No matter how happy I am to be doing something where I can see the palpable results of helping people, this particular situation is not something I could live with forever. I think two to three years is what I'm looking at, but that's good because that's the timeframe we're thinking about for trying to move.
As for work, it's been good. I'm slowly getting a little more confident about the job in a general sense. I'm starting to get a little overwhelmed by how many people I need to keep in touch with and help out, but part of that is that a good 70% of my people I talk to are extremely rambly. Keeping that under wraps is difficult, because there's a fine line between "building relationships" and being someone that they can ramble at, and putting my foot down so we actually stay on track.
Most of the time, it's a cool job where I do genuinely feel like I'm helping people. (And I don't mind ALL the rambly stories; some of them are interesting.) But I also have students who are incapable of getting through a call without making a racist remark, and that is painful to sit politely through while steering the conversation rapidly away.
The majority of the sexism I encounter lately is in the workplace around me. Smarmy guy, and nice but still Mormon guy, and careless jock guy, and so on. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's intolerable. Work is work, right?
Anyway. Definitely got an internal timer on this. No matter how happy I am to be doing something where I can see the palpable results of helping people, this particular situation is not something I could live with forever. I think two to three years is what I'm looking at, but that's good because that's the timeframe we're thinking about for trying to move.
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