abckidsmom
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I find that EMS is loaded with post-adolescents of many varieties. I would have thought that the nature of the job would force the majority of people into adulthood, but that's not always the case.
Discussing an old partner of mine today with my husband, I realized that the prime reason I hated that guy was because we were both egocentric barely-more-than-adolescents with no problem solving skills (or no desire to use them). We got in more trouble for stupid crap in the year we worked together than any trouble I've gotten in since. Basically, it was continual butting heads and failing to see things from the other person's perspective. And refusal to back down from being "right."
Now, through a trick that God is playing on me, I'm faced with the possibility of going to work at the place where he's been all this time while I've been having kids. So he's likely to be a supervisor, or at least up there in the seniority. Great.
But I think I probably have the skills to deal with him now, even if he is still the same way, because I think sometime around the second daughter I became a full-out adult.
How about the rest of you? Can you identify a turning point where you believe that you started behaving like an adult? Have you yet, LOL?
Discussing an old partner of mine today with my husband, I realized that the prime reason I hated that guy was because we were both egocentric barely-more-than-adolescents with no problem solving skills (or no desire to use them). We got in more trouble for stupid crap in the year we worked together than any trouble I've gotten in since. Basically, it was continual butting heads and failing to see things from the other person's perspective. And refusal to back down from being "right."
Now, through a trick that God is playing on me, I'm faced with the possibility of going to work at the place where he's been all this time while I've been having kids. So he's likely to be a supervisor, or at least up there in the seniority. Great.
But I think I probably have the skills to deal with him now, even if he is still the same way, because I think sometime around the second daughter I became a full-out adult.
How about the rest of you? Can you identify a turning point where you believe that you started behaving like an adult? Have you yet, LOL?