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Jan. 28th, 2019 07:01 pm Amazing how at night you can be on top of the world because you played a successful show to a full house, and then the next morning you're having a total breakdown at work because you're making mistakes left and right and your coworkers are not being gentle in their corrections.
Sometimes I really feel like I lack some kind of gene that everyone else in the world has that allows me to be a functional member of society. Which I know is pretty extreme for me to say and maybe I'm being too hard on myself, but... I dunno. Maybe it's something about the environment of a job. I had a roomful of people come out last night to see me sing and I had the night of my life socializing with them, and now today the folks I'm working with won't even return my smile and just gripe to me about how I'm doing everything wrong.
Am I victimizing myself here? Surely I acknowledge that I'm making mistakes, but I can't stop reacting poorly when they're pointed out to me. It took me until I got home for me to realize that the way to respond to criticism is to thank the person offering it and promise to make a corrective effort, not to apologize repeatedly and put yourself down.
Anyway I want to find a new job, something that I already have experience with, because I don't know if I can take something like this and it's really not worth doing all this for minimum wage... but I at least want to master this before I leave, so that I won't look/feel like a quitter.
Sometimes I really feel like I lack some kind of gene that everyone else in the world has that allows me to be a functional member of society. Which I know is pretty extreme for me to say and maybe I'm being too hard on myself, but... I dunno. Maybe it's something about the environment of a job. I had a roomful of people come out last night to see me sing and I had the night of my life socializing with them, and now today the folks I'm working with won't even return my smile and just gripe to me about how I'm doing everything wrong.
Am I victimizing myself here? Surely I acknowledge that I'm making mistakes, but I can't stop reacting poorly when they're pointed out to me. It took me until I got home for me to realize that the way to respond to criticism is to thank the person offering it and promise to make a corrective effort, not to apologize repeatedly and put yourself down.
Anyway I want to find a new job, something that I already have experience with, because I don't know if I can take something like this and it's really not worth doing all this for minimum wage... but I at least want to master this before I leave, so that I won't look/feel like a quitter.
