27 Letters to My Daughter by Ella Ward

Author:Ella Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Buzz wasn’t happy. This isn’t abnormal. There are times when a job is shit. I’ve had terrible bosses, lazy colleagues and nasty clients. I’ve been in over my head and way out of my depth and drowning between the two. Sometimes, something doesn’t click. The job may be too hard, too easy, or just too far away. The trick is not to avoid these jobs, because it’s very hard to establish what’s wrong until you’re in the thick of it. The trick is to identify what’s wrong once you’re in the middle of the wrong.

Some people felt about the cigarette factory the way I felt about the toffee factory or the department store. And vice versa. Often, it’s not the workplace that’s wrong, it’s who you are at the time you work there. In my time at the toffee factory I was falling in love, both with advertising and with a man. Behind those black cats, I was homesick, hungry and tired. In my time in the department store, I was growing a career and a friendship group and a marriage.

Lesson #103: If you can’t change you, and you can’t change them, change jobs.

The one thing I want to tell you more than anything is – find a job that makes you better. Don’t be better than the job, it’s the quickest way to breed resentment and dull your own blade. Find a job that excites you, scares you, lifts you up, educates you and makes you laugh. Find a job where the people you do the work with are as good as (or better than) the work itself. I think you and I both know what I’m saying here, my girl . . .

Lesson #104: Your job is what you make it.

Go get ’em.

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