[Courses] [Spineful Living, Lesson 4: Saying No!]

[Amanda Angell]

On Monday 23 April 2007 5:33 am, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Lesson 4: Saying No!

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> Life is too short to waste.
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That's the most important line in lesson 2 for me! :)

In my effort to live spinefully, I took the plunge and told my work what I 
wanted today. It was quite difficult - I cried while talking - but I didn't 
want to stop or I'd never say it.

I've used up 4 days of my sick leave (out of 6 sick days for a 3 month 
contract) in just over 1 month of being there. Just about every week 
something else goes wrong, and I think the stress of working full-time was 
making things worse.

To make things doubly worse, they were training me in the call-centre this 
week, which really doesn't agree with me - I hate phones, and talking to 
people isn't my strong suit (to put it mildly!). So.. I told them how I 
felt.. and they've been really good. I'm back to Data Entry (I really rock at 
data entry, although I get so bored, it's better than phones!) and I'm 
talking to a higher-power tomorrow about going part-time!

Basically, I said what I wanted, and so-far, it looks as though I'm going to 
get it. Although, the hardest thing was working out exactly what it was I 
wanted in the first place.

Now, all I have to do is concentrate on working out what my ultimate goal 
really is - what I really want out of life, what job to do, what will make me 
happy. I know my current job isn't it, but today was a start in making at 
least bareable.

Thanks for the course! I'll keep reading, everyone's been so inspirational.

Amanda.