Hear me out – as an employee I want to see some stability and security. I guess, more than “some”, I want a lot of stability.
But, as a fellow citizen, I do not want our leading businesses to become stale and ineffective. Now, I have two conflicting needs here.
My first “need” is afraid of risk, my second “need” wants a dynamic, prosperous, thriving and growing economy. How do I reconcile the two…
I know exactly how you feel. I am the same way in that I really, really want stability and predicatability. I started at State Farm right out of college and planned to never leave strictly because of how stable it was. When all of this upheaval started it was very stressful on me. It took a lot of emotional effort, but I finally took the plunge and started interviewing. I started small with just prepping for interviews. I knew that the worst that could happen is that I learn new things and get better at my job.
I ended up with a job through an old high school friend I had not talked to in 10 years. I had to decide to take risks knowing that I would grow with each new uncertain circumstance I dealt with.
I also have the privelage of being married to the most amazing woman. I know that she and I can get through anything together. If you have a life partner, talk to him/her a lot. I always found that verbalizing my fears and anxieties helped put them in perspective.
Anyways, that’s a lot of rambling hopefully some of which was beneficial. Remember that nothing is certain in life. Figure out how to accept and embrace that fact. You will never get over your fears until you put yourself in situations where you are forced to deal with them. Good luck!
Ha ha. Good luck.
Drink at work.
Youll probably be more fun to be around.
If you have a dirty carpet you can do a few things: get it cleaned, replace it with new carpet or upgrade to hardwood or tile. Or, if you're a moron, you burn down your house and build a barn over the smoldering ashes.
State Farm burnt down the house and built a barn. There absolutely were places were change was needed but the execution was terrible. For example, in claims I believe going to bigger demand pools made a lot of sense...expect they jurisdictional training and resources were garbage, they understaffed the new pools and did not account for people's experience. They took experienced total loss people and shoved them into Express while taking newbies from Express and ILR and tried to have them handle total losses.
They basically took ideas from an MBA textbook and tried to apply them without tailoring the solution to the needs of customers and the reality of the business.
Change is not bad.....but poorly planned, crappily executed change has turned and profitable industry leader into a clown show.
Fentanyl should be able to take the edge off that and help you calm down a little