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Anyone working in sustainability?
I am a graduating student who just got offered 65k for a solution analyst role at Deloitte USDC (Data Engineering Focus). From reading previous posts it seems to be a lot of negative thoughts surrounding the USDC, but straight out of college is this a good opportunity?
I'm looking to gain as much experience as possible out of college in an IT role and wondering what exit opportunities may be in place a year or two down the road if there is little/slow progression.
Any Advice?
How’s everyone doing?
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8 years sober today! I love AA.
One year today yay!
4 years today. #grateful #keepcomingback
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...And one thing I’m doing differently is I’m actually putting my sobriety first. I go to a mtg before work and/or mtgs after work. I’ve never done this before. I always put work first. I’m doing service, helping others, my relationship with my sponsor has never been better, and even my grand sponsor likes me a lot! Oh and I hit my knees and pray every night and throughout the day. But my self-confidence is shot. If I’m not swamped with work, I automatically think it’s b/c they’re about to fire me. I pray this outlook will change.
That is so awesome. The slow periods are difficult at work, I feel the insecurity creep in too. It is a good time make use of company paid training on Lynda if they offer it. Building skills to boost your capabilities and company sees that. Also just breathe a little.
Hell yes! I know the feeling of always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Just do your best and be done with it. The latter is the tough part. Keep checking in here and keep coming back!
Congrats on your sobriety stretch. 4 years here myself.
I hit my bottom and dabbled in meetings during in-patient detox. Ultimately decided the dogma of AA was deleterious to my health and happiness in 2 key ways:
1) frequency and expectation of meetings makes your addiction define you more than it needs to; over time the fact that you don’t drink becomes less and less important to how you live your life and how people view you
2) if you slip up (you might), by AA standards you’ve blown your streak and need to start over, all those chips you earned now for naught... so why not turn that one beer in an awkward situation oversight into a 2 week bender? You already lost your status, what was supposed to be your support system is now demotivating you. Sobriety is a contract you make and enforce with yourself.
With these in mind, I’ve come to believe strongly in the benefit of a harm reduction over total abstinence. Take an inventory of the negative character traits and behaviors you found with your substance(s) of choice, and map that against the positive associations you got from them.
YMMV. People turn to D&A for a variety of reasons, but it can be argued that everyone deserves a vice, an escape - it’s just about finding the one(s) that don’t elicit those same destructive traits and behaviors you saw before, and only yield net neutral of positive results. YMMV. Good luck out there. It’s definitely doable.
AA has given me my life today and wouldn't change it for the world. 5 years very much a day at a time.
Keep it up! If you slip up, we've all been there, we're powerless over this disease. No judgement, no shame. World record for sobriety is 24 hours.
Congrats, and hang in there it keeps getting better!
Big big big congratulations my friend. Keep it up and feel free to reach out here if you need help from the perspective of ad folks.
Regarding waiting for the other shoe to drop, that was a significant part of my drinking. Gloom and doom was always around the corner and anxiety was always on. For me, that is why I got heavily into meditation practice as my “higher power”. It helps me curate a relationship to my thoughts, see them with clarity, and recognize when they are spinning a bullshit story of self doubt and sabotage. I love it because it’s completely portable and now that I have a pretty solid practice I can do it anywhere, sitting down, to standing on the train, to walking (to some degree). If I am getting caught in a negative cycle I can hide in a conference room for 5 minutes and almost always completely ground myself.
Keep on going 🙌