The Power of Creativity (Book 1) by Bryan Collins

Author:Bryan Collins [Collins, Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bryan Collins

I embraced the job, but no matter what I did I couldn’t figure out how to give my boss (and his boss) what they needed. Every project I worked on failed. I tried to send e-Christmas cards to the charity’s mailing list only to find I’d compiled a list of the wrong recipients.

I created a development plan for the charity’s website that my boss didn’t want to read, and I wrote a 2,000-word profile of the organisation’s work that the management team said they couldn’t publish.

I felt as if I were under attack.

After Christmas, my boss called me back into that room.

“We’re letting you go, Bryan. The work you’re doing here isn’t much beyond that of a clerical officer in the civil service, and that’s not what this charity needs.” My boss slid a white envelope across the table. “Here’s your notice.”

I felt like taking the envelope, ripping it up and throwing it at him. Not even Viktor Frankl could help me.

“I left a good job to come here.” I thought of the permanent and pensionable job I’d had as care worker for people with intellectual disabilities.

“What am I supposed to do now?” I asked.

“This is hard for me,” he said. “I know it must be hard for you.”

I folded the envelope in two.

How could this be hard for him when I was the one losing a job in the middle of a recession with my wife and two small children depending on me?

“When do I finish?”

He folded his hands.

“We’ll give you till the end of February alongside whatever holiday pay you’re due.”

I left the room and walked out the front door and into the small car park. I got into my rusting 2002 Renault Clio. Then I punched the ceiling over and over and swore as loudly as I could get away with in a business park at 3:00 p.m. on a grey Monday afternoon in January.

For weeks afterwards, I was angry about being fired, being out of a job and claiming social welfare. I tried to write about it, but I didn’t make much progress.

I couldn’t find a way to balance my anger and disappointment with the calmness writing demands. and the endurance I needed to look for another job.

I looked outwards toward the biographies of artists I admired for answers. I wanted to see how they overcame personal and professional setbacks and still found strength to work on their ideas.

What I found surprised me. Some of these creative masters lived deeply unhappy lives, while others knew how to change their destructive habits for the better.

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