{"id":3493,"date":"2016-04-12T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2016-04-12T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:18:16","slug":"j-for-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3493","title":{"rendered":"J for Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why didn’t I ask you to jump in the deep end and come with me to Melbourne the last time? But if I did, it would have forced me to be someone I’m not.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Email excerpt from a former love, Nov 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

If he had asked, I would have jumped. I had liked him enough to have risked jumping in the deep end. But he didn’t and we ended up saying our goodbyes in 2012. I was sad for a long time after that, but time heals wounds.<\/p>\n

So it was bizarre to have received an email from him out of the blue last November, which included the line above. Most likely he was bored when he wrote. From what I deduce from the other content in that email, he meant to say that I would have held him back in his ambitions to climb the corporate ladder because I’m not ambitious.<\/p>\n

It was interesting to know that was what he thought of me. But he read me wrong. I’m not unambitious, but neither am I super ambitious. However, I’m not at the point of my life where I don’t want to jump higher on the career ladder. While some people are happy staying put in the same job for 20+ years (I have colleagues like that at the moment), I’m not. In fact, I’m always thinking about the next step up.<\/p>\n

There is\u00a0drive, commitment and determination in people who work their way up to the top rungs of the corporate ladder. I admire the\u00a0passion and fire in such people. So contrary to that guy’s belief, I would have supported rather than hindered his ambitions.<\/p>\n

Anyway the only jump I’m thinking of now is the next\u00a0job I want to jump to when the right opportunity comes along. Not really that unambitious, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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