How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work by Megan Hustad

Author:Megan Hustad
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-618-71350-9
Published: 2008-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Do remain aware, nonetheless, that someone will always hate you. The

hating can’t be avoided, especially if you’re finally going places. (“A little turnip who spends most of her time backcombing her hair will feel outraged because you have the job she feels she deserved.”) Understanding how prevalent resentment is, and how some people might enjoy disliking you, and how little you can do about it sometimes, gets you halfway toward not letting the hatred keep you awake at night.

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A slow start might be better than rocketing to the top, all things considered. Gurley Brown once told a story of a colleague who used to make her feel totally inadequate. They worked together at a radio station—probably KHJ in Hollywood—when they were both really young. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this girl was busy establishing herself as the next Martha Gellhorn, out on the roof of the station trying to spot bomber planes and filing reports. She worked through that entire night, while Helen wanted to crawl under her desk in embarrassment for being so relatively ordinary. Helen didn’t see this girl again for years, and then bumped into her one day—at the Laundromat, where the former crackerjack was now working. For Gurley Brown, it led to a strange, self-consciously petty feeling of triumph. Like little firecrackers going off inside you… pop, pop, pop•

It’s probably worth mentioning that I recently ran into the guy who said maybe his boss enjoyed humiliating people, a few weeks after he had found a new job at a different company. “I feel like a different person,” he said. He looked it, too.

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