It was odd to look and see that the last post was the one where I left my first job as a Scrum Master and Product Owner. Since then, I have had 3 other roles. One of them was as a business systems analyst - my fallback because I can ALWAYS find that role. Everyone needs BA/BSAs. More importantly, I have had (and currently have) two jobs as a Scrum Master. It is what *I* love to do. Yeah, it's not for everyone, but I am GOOD at it. I enjoy it. I spend my days figuring out how to help make things happen. Some days I am bored as hell. On those days I dream up presentations and think of fun ways to make my team's demos interesting. Other days, though...it is NON STOP. Find this person, get time with that VP, we need 4 answers to questions before we can get these things done, and it is MY JOB to make it happen. I love that.
What I perceived as my failure in my last post wasn't the fall off the horse it seemed like at the end. It wasn't failure. It was a pause. After some time, I pressed play and started again. And *that* is fine. I am now in a job I love. I spent 16 months at a job I didn't LOVE, but that I made work, and that time grew my skillset and my knowledge in what I wanted. It taught me how to deal with a lot of issues, and once again reminded me how much I *hate* sneaky women's catfights. That's a long story, but the net of it is, I'm going to stand in who I am, and what I know is right, and if that makes me not a fit in a company, then that's ok!
It's funny, how when you're least expecting it, God can give you a look at your situation, and you see how He's been working all along, when you never saw it happening.
The power of retrospect...of of zooming out. I was so busy staring at the single pine needle, I missed the entire forest.
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