Archive for May, 2008
Susan, Dinner, and Some Really Important Questions
Last night at dinner with friends at a local Asian restaurant, a friend of a friend we’ll call Susan, lamented that she wanted to change jobs but did not really know to what. She definitely felt she did not want to remain in her current sales role, but when asked what she wanted quickly replied, “I don’t know.”
Breaking attention from mixing my Larb with the heart-shaped mound of brown rice I added to the order, I asked if I could make a raise a few ideas that might help her get the answer she wanted. She politely agreed.
All Available Answers
First I told her that the inkling she felt that something was not quite right about her current situation was a very useful and special feeling. In it lay…
