WORK:

Just as we have relationship histories, most of
us have work histories.

Just as we develop a healthy attitude toward
our relationship history – one that will help us
learn and move forward – we can develop a
healthy attitude toward our work history.

I have worked at jobs I hated but was
temporarily dependent on. I have gotten

stuck in jobs because I was afraid to strike out
on my own and find my next set of
circumstances.

I have been in some jobs to develop skills.
Sometimes, I didn't know I was developing
those skills until later when they became an
important part of the career of my choice.

I have worked at jobs where I have felt
victimized, where I felt like I gave and gave
and received nothing in return. I have been in
relationships where I manufactured similar
feelings.

I have worked at some jobs that have taught
me what I absolutely didn't want; others
sparked in me an idea of what I really did
want and deserve in my career.

Some of my jobs have helped me develop
character; others have helped me fine-tune
skills. They have all been a place to practice
recovery behaviors.

Just as I have needed to clear the wreckage of
feelings about past relationships, I have needed
to finish my business with jobs and careers.

I have learned something from each job, and
my work history has helped create who I am.

I learned something else: there was a Plan,
and I was being led. The more I trusted my
instincts, what I wanted, and what felt right,
the more I felt that I was being led.

The more I refused to lose my soul to a job
and worked at it because I wanted to and not
for the paycheck, the less victimized I felt by
any career, even those jobs that paid a
meager salary. The more I set goals and took

responsibility for achieving the career I
wanted, the more I could decide whether a
particular job fit into that scheme of things.
I could understand why I was working at a
particular job and how that was going to
benefit me.

There are times I have panicked at work an
about where I was in my employment history.
Panic never helped. Trust and working my
program did.

There were times I looked around and
wondered why I was where I was. There

were times people thought I should be
someplace different. But when I looked

into myself and at God, I knew I was in the
right place, for the moment.

There were times I didn't get the promotion I
wanted. There were times I refused a
promotion because it didn't feel right.

There are times I have to quit a job and walk
away in order to be true to myself.
Sometimes, that was frightening. Sometimes,
I felt like a failure. But I learned this: If I
was working my program and true to myself,
I never had to fear where I was being led.

I've learned that I'm not stuck or trapped in a
job no more than I am in a relationship. I
have choices. I may not be able to see them
clearly right now, but I do have choices. I've
learned that if I really want to take care of

myself in a particular way on a job, I will do
that. And if I really want to be victimized by
a job, I will allow that to happen too.

Above all else, I've learned to accept and
trust my present circumstances at work.
That does not mean to submit; it does not
mean to forego boundaries. It means to trust,
accept, then take care of myself the best I'm
able to on any given day.

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