{"id":4108,"date":"2015-01-16T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2015-01-20T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:47:40","slug":"waiting-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/waiting-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting by the Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/waiting-mailbox\/attachment\/mailbox\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mailbox.jpg\" alt=\"mailbox\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mailbox.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mailbox-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mailbox-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>In our careers and in our lives, there are moments of key importance when news finally arrives that we have expected impatiently for a long time. The wait by the mailbox seems interminable.<\/p>\n<p>The HR Doctor remembers as though it were yesterday running to the mailbox every day as a high school senior waiting for a letter from UCLA. Then the letter arrived and I recalled being paralyzed for several moments. Do I open it? What if I haven\u2019t been admitted? I have shared my hopes and dreams with friends and colleagues. I have waited for weeks and now the letter is in my hand. Do I open it now? I did. I stared at the letter in silence as I read the words \u201cCongratulations on your admission to the University of California, Los Angeles! \u201c If it had been bad news, I would have stared at it in silence in much the same way though the later celebration and joy would not have been there.<\/p>\n<p>The same feeling of impatience, worry, fear and hopefully joy is something we all experience. Sometimes that concern is reflected when we visit a doctor\u2019s office with a medical problem and we wait for the doctor to come in to the chilly, Spartan examining room to tell us the results of tests. Sometimes at work we wait for the results of the performance evaluation. Every appointed official has waited, either impatiently, nervously, or both, while the elected City Commission, County Commission, or Board of Supervisors considers our recommendations and then says to the clerk \u201cCall the roll!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same scenario replayed itself a generation in the Rosenberg family with two major events occurring in close proximity. Wonderful HR daughter Elyse, a county government Senior Management and Budget Analyst, applied for a promotion to Manager. We all strive to advance our career, even though it might mean leaving the comfort zone of a job we understand and working with people we respect, to risk the unknown of a new director, a new department, unfamiliar work and our first supervisory responsibility. Am I doing the right thing? Will this work out? How do I excel in supervision? How do I handle my first staff meeting with new subordinates? Several years after the offer was finally made and accepted, Elyse and the rest of us look back on our careers and find that the answers to these questions were all inside of us already. We may have had self-doubts, but somewhere along the line a mentor or a sensitive executive like Sue Baldwin, Director of County Records in Broward County, understands that there is nothing to worry about except, to paraphrase the great HR Director, Franklin Roosevelt, \u201cFear Itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other \u201cblessed event\u201d involved wonderful HR Doctor daughter Rachel. No matter how hard you work in medical school, no matter how respected you may be by your fellow students, the Attending Physician who grades you, or your patients, you simply cannot be a doctor \u2013 you cannot graduate \u2013 unless you pass the various State Medical Board examinations. These are two day marathons &#8211; grueling, nerve racking examinations &#8211; which can shatter a student\u2019s confidence and leave you wondering if instead of being a doctor, perhaps you should consider a career as a Greeter at Wal-Mart. The monumental Board examinations were taken two months ago and the results arrived just yesterday. Every day the \u201cHR Daddy\u201d was dispatched out to the mailbox by his daughter who is involved doing clinical rotations half a continent away.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHas the letter arrived?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think I did well!\u201d \u201cWhat if I failed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the letter arrived, ironically, while Rachel was on the telephone talking to dad about her day\u2019s experience. I got to open the magic letter from the dreaded \u201cBoard of Medical Examiners\u201d and got to say immediately, \u201cIt\u2019s a \u201cPass,\u00a0\u00a0 Rachel! Not only is it a pass, it\u2019s a \u2018super pass\u2019!\u201d A great score, literally off the graphic chart which accompanied the tests results!\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps it was wrong to open the letter while your daughter was driving home from a day at the hospital because the tears which followed made driving dangerous. How wonderful that they were tears of joy.<\/p>\n<p>It may be something like Medical Boards or getting a promotion. It may be good news from the doctor or good news about other people you work with or care very much about. The situation is the same. Every one of us faces these moments in our lives when we \u201cwait by the mailbox\u201d \u2013 either literally or figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>These moments of great importance mark the progress of our careers and our lives. While we believe that joy is far better than disappointment, the HR Doctor wondered &#8211; but only briefly &#8211; how the HR daughters would have reacted if the promotion went to someone else or the Board scores were disappointing. How we handle disappointment and failure is, arguably, more important than how we handle success.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSeduction of Comfort\u201d (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrdr.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">HR Doctor article<\/a> by that name ) can be dangerous. The best bosses, colleagues, spouses, and parents work through the process of recovery and growth out of disappointment with the ones they care about with equal passion and sharing as though it was joy rather than sadness.<\/p>\n<p>Joy may not be as great a character builder as disappointment can be, but it is much more fun! The HR Doctor hopes that your time spent \u201cwaiting at the mailbox\u201d produces equal joy to what has occurred repeatedly in our house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our careers and in our lives, there are moments of key importance when news finally arrives that we have expected impatiently for a long time. The wait by the mailbox seems interminable. 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