Is being fearless sometimes actaully being foolish? I've been thinking a bit about this today...wondering if my openness and fearlessness on the 'net will, somehow, end up working against me.
I worry about this. It was something someone said to me about my picture being kind of "off putting" and that I was pretty "edgy" for these parts.
Am I just too "edgy" in general? Am I at the point where I will have to go behind closed doors, into a gated community, in order to be more professional and respectable?
Have I hit the point where the personal and professional must occupy separate spheres? Is compartmentalization part of successful adulthood?
I wonder--and worry a bit.
I worry about this. It was something someone said to me about my picture being kind of "off putting" and that I was pretty "edgy" for these parts.
Am I just too "edgy" in general? Am I at the point where I will have to go behind closed doors, into a gated community, in order to be more professional and respectable?
Have I hit the point where the personal and professional must occupy separate spheres? Is compartmentalization part of successful adulthood?
I wonder--and worry a bit.
posted by Tish Grier at 10:59 PM
5 Comments:
Or you could try to work in a field that doesn't look down on "edginess," whatever that means. I could see how your openness could be a liability in certain fields.
what I found out today is that it's the communities I'm looking at....there are indeed places where being edgy won't be a problem and what I do here won't be a big deal. But I think I'm going to have to cast a much wider net and think higher up on the food chain to get what I need.
I feel like a kid looking up at a pie sitting on top of a refridgerator...
Too edgy?
Nawwww--we're crazy about ya, just the way you are, Tish.
Shalom Tish,
Too edgy? People who might suggest that have no idea what edgy is.
Ignore them.
B'shalom,
Jeff
My sense about the "edgy" comment wasn't necessarily meant as denigration, but was definitely a caveat on success in this area of the world. Things are very conservative out here, and there's lots of resistance to progressive thinking. It's what keeps things under-developed, keeps businesses from re-locating here, causes people (even local kids) to leave once they graduate from college or university. It's a pretty place to live but one has to adapt to its ways, not try to change it.
I don't really belong here, but I don't have the cash to move to where I might fit in better and have better employment opportunities. That's what I'm most frustrated about, and the "edgy" comment just made it worse.
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