New Year's disappointment...

I felt like Superman. Now I feel like George Reeves.
Some people ring in the New Year with champagne and laughter. Some ring in the New Year with family and friends. I rang in the New Year with hope. I really felt that 2010 was off to a good start. I was in talks for a good job. Not a great job, but definitely a step up in pay and position. The HR people loved me. They thought I was a shoe in. Their offices were going to be closed for the holidays but they would be talking to me in the New Year and get the ball rolling. I let out a sigh of relief and allowed myself to enjoy the holidays. I actually let go off the stress I'd been carrying for the past 2 months. I just found out today that they "decided to go another way." Huh? What's wrong with the way we were going? I thought it was lovely. The sky was blue. The road was smooth. Why not go my way? So, 2010 starts pretty much the same way the last part of 2009 did, uncertain and more than a little scary. But I started to think about this whole "not my way" thing. Maybe there's something I can do to make my way even more attractive. So, I'm revamping my site in the next few days. I'm going to start being more aggressive in my writing and drawing. Who knows, this whole thing may just be a pivotal moment in my development. Maybe it's time I started asking different questions. Maybe "my way" isn't within the world of advertising after all. Maybe, I'm about to move away from what I think I should be doing - towards what I was made to do. Hopefully I'll have this figured out and I'll be ringing in 2011 with family, friends and laughter. You can have the champagne - I never trust anything the French invented.