You are 21 years old without a college degree, juggling school and work, and trying to rescue what’s been left over from your teenage heydays (read: oh social life, where have you gone?); you’re sitting on the steps outside the Starbucks behind your office building— you and your immediate supervisor and your coffee and your cigarettes and you talk about college and people you both know and vacations you took and what you hope for for the future. NYC. Europe. Putting up a bed and breakfast. Fucking graduating.
Eventually, the conversation turns to work; this is, after all, supposed to be a coaching session. After the obligatory “so how do you like the program?” question (to which you answer with a little two thumbs-up! dance), your supervisor praises your performance: “I’m so thankful to get decent quick-thinking Wave 16 agents!” Uh-oh, you brace yourself for the inevitable: the constructive criticism that usually follows. Points for improvement, ya know?
But there are none. Instead, she asks you: “Do you plan on becoming a TL (team leader)?”
You fumble with your answer. You manage a “Yeah, I hope so!”
Way to go, Direction, Assetiveness, and Confidence!
What your supervisor says next surprises you: “We can groom you to be one. You have the potential.”
You raise your eyebrows, cock your head to the side, and shrug. You giggle, of course. You always giggle. Normal non-work conversation resumes, but for a few minutes, your mind is on something else. You pull up your mental list of “what I want to be when I grow up“.
Taylor Hanson’s wife- Philippine ambassador to SOMEWHERE
- Ambassadress to SOMEONE
- work for the UN (UNDP/UNESCO/UNV)
- work for the WWF-Philippines
- trophy wife
Customer service associate? Not there. Team officer in charge? Not there, either.
Sometimes, I have to remind myself that this isn’t a career. It’s just a job. JUST. A. JOB.
Hi, I'm Helga Weber and welcome to my personal site. I'm 25 and in the process of learning how to make adventurous life choices. I dislike old people but I love grandma clothes. My goal in life is to build a ball pit right next to my bed. Currently searching for the perfect house coat. My lover is the greatest. 
Think of all the money you’ll be earning once you become a TL
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Girl, you are SO YOUNG still! Most people I study with, are 25 or older, inlcuding me, I’ll be 25 next year :( I don’t know what I want to say with this, but you’re young and you can be proud to be where you are now… still don’t know what I want to say with this… umm… What about Isaak (sp?) Hansons wife?
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yeah.. becoming a TL? that’s a good news. but yeah, you could be so much more than that.. we’re still young.
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Helgaa, it might not be in your list but it’s worth a short right? You can check if you can handle the extra (?) workload.
School is still top priority.
We miss you around LJ!
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I saw your Shelved Area. You have God of Small Things now. I love that book. The language is so rich. It’s like Arundhati Roy made all the words purposeful.
AND! you forgot to write in your “What I Want to Be/Do…” List: TO RULE THE WORLD
I have always imagined you ruling some part of the world.
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i dont know what i would do in your shoes, probably i’d try, it’s never too late to change path i think. but we have to do what we really want, so if you are not interested, just work as long as you neet that job and then focus on your real needs and dreams.
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TL? whoo. pano ba maging teamleader sa inyo? required mag ovetime lagi?
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You can still do all that! Become an ambassador, and then marry a hot & rich ambassador boy, parlay your diplomatic experience into a gig with the UN for awhile, and then return home and retire to the board of trustees of WWF-ph.
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miss u.. how’s miriam?
tc
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Sometimes, I have to remind myself that this isn’t a career. It’s just a job. JUST. A. JOB.
Well this certainly woke me up. Little Miss Picky hasnt really gone job hunting in fears of finding the wrong career.. But it’s not a career that I need right now.. it’s a JOB.
Thanks Helga.
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