{"id":4449,"date":"2015-05-09T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2015-05-09T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:41:55","slug":"career-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/career-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/career-patience\/attachment\/career-patience\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/career-patience.jpg\" alt=\"career patience\" width=\"463\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/career-patience.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/career-patience-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/career-patience-480x321.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a>I can sit through a three-hour class, in the evening, after working eight hours, and enjoy the experience.\u00a0 I can sit through a six-hour class, when the weather is nice, on a Saturday (I\u2019m not saying I enjoy six hour classes, but they are bearable).\u00a0 I can easily endure conversations with long awkward silence.\u00a0 I can even sit through academic conference presentations on the state budget preparation process of New York and the comparison of small population municipal sales tax in Georgia and Texas with ease.\u00a0 How is it then that I cannot be patient when it comes to my career?<\/p>\n<p>The above situations are short-term, and a career is, well, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/search-results-jobs\/?action=search&amp;listing_type%5Bequal%5D=Job&amp;keywords%5Ball_words%5D=&amp;Location%5Blocation%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&amp;Location%5Blocation%5D%5Bradius%5D=10\" target=\"_blank\">career<\/a> and lasts more than forty years.\u00a0 I am not just struggling to stay positive about where I am professionally, but I am unsure of the relationship between my current choices and my future aspirations. Then I had a revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Very recently, I took up running.\u00a0 Here in Michigan, while there are opportunities to exercise during the long winters, it is just not the same as having fresh air fill stressed lungs.\u00a0 In the process, I am learning a lot about long-term patience.\u00a0 Running may be a perfect case study to learn principles applicable to my career.<\/p>\n<p>Like any out-of-shape new runner, pacing myself and learning my limits are important.\u00a0 Every day I am able to increase the distance I can run before my body pleads to slow to a walk.\u00a0 Before I could learn that, I had to take that first stride \u2013 and run.<\/p>\n<p>Equally recently, I found a real job.\u00a0 Okay maybe not a\u00a0<em>real<\/em>\u00a0job (I fear I will continually redefine\u00a0<em>real<\/em>\u00a0job), but I have been working full-time.\u00a0 I should be thankful to have something that gets me up in the morning, elated to be gaining real experience I can apply to the classroom, and hopeful about where this opportunity might lead, yet I cannot help but feeling something is missing.<\/p>\n<p>The choices I am making regarding graduate school programs and job versus internship alternatives prove I am unsure of my present life, and I only have an outline where I would like to find my future self.\u00a0 In the short-term, the choices I have made are economically correct.\u00a0 The opportunity cost increases once aspirations are considered.\u00a0 For a while, I saw winter maintenance budgeting research as a redeeming article that would be an important ticket to my sought future. I may have to reconsider multiple facets of my interests with recent disappointing test results.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to running, what I can thus far apply to my life is quite simple.\u00a0 Changes do not occur over night.\u00a0 Yes, I can run farther every day.\u00a0 Every day on the job, I learn something new, become a little more independent, and make additional synapsis.\u00a0 To run a mile let alone a marathon will take time.\u00a0 To become a Chief Financial Officer or Treasurer of a city no matter how small will take a lot of time.\u00a0 The same applies to earning a Ph.D. particularly when I learn about programs and tailor what I would like to study.<\/p>\n<p>I recognize this is a simple conclusion and it does not seem profound. Patience I have realized comes in two forms: short-term and long-term. Defining short- and long-term may differ by person, but in this context, short-term is under a day and long-term is over a day. I would like to think I am great with short-term, but I know I am terrible with long-term patience. I struggle to wait for something in the mail, for instance. Running works for me because I can set new goals daily.<\/p>\n<p>Applying this personal revelation, a beginning realistic goal is to learn two new things about accounting daily at my job. A potential goal pertaining to winter maintenance budgeting research is to record the data of four city budgets and accompanying weather daily. For those that can relate, heed to suggestions; set short-term goals, however defined; and make the most of present conditions. 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