It strikes me we need some careful screening from time to time just to put us straight so that we know where we are going wrong. Turned on its head, if that statistic is true, it means only one in ten people you meet are in the least bit inclined to find you tolerable. I believe I read somewhere that nine out of ten people are inclined to dislike you. Most of us struggle to see ourselves for what we are. Unfortunately, the only gift they possess is the one to make people laugh at them rather than with them. These people should be pitied I suppose, because in their delusional state they really think they have a gift. There are crazies with spotty faces and ill-fitting trousers that look as if they have just escaped from somewhere – mad-eyed women that seem likely to produce an axe out of their jumpers at any moment. They would have trouble with Jack and Jill. On these shows, there are always would-be singers that cannot sing – and I mean really cannot sing. You will find extreme cases on Britain Has Got Talent and the X Factor. Self-criticism is one of the hardest things for anyone. In my defence, I have to self-edit and that is difficult. I know I make a few crashing errors with my grammar. I like the writing because it is different. Put like that it does not sound so great. My unofficial title at present is part-time writer, race-reader and gambler. You are protected from the unpleasantness, rather as the man who tucks into a steak is spared the grizzly details of how it arrived upon his plate. When you work for someone else (unless for the government in its various guises), you are less exposed to such a reality, as you are the tool of the mastermind that buys for X and sells for Y. The only way you make money is to take a slice of someone else’s share this applies when you work for yourself whatever your chosen vocation. So you can call yourself what you like, the fact remains you are some sort of wheeler-dealer trying to beat the system. None of this will make the slightest difference of course because you are just a bloke that has an office attached to his house, who wears a hole in the carpet whilst he tries to figure out how he is going to pay his car tax.
You can buy a plaque and put it in on your door if you so wish declaring that you are the big cheese, the head honcho, the man with whom the buck rolls to a stop. When you work for yourself, you are the next person in the chain, and the next after that and so on right up to the managing director. If you are in traditional employment, you will receive an appraisal from the next person in the chain of command. It has to be you because there is simply no one else to do it. AND ANOTHER THING… April 2009 Self appraisalsįROM TIME TO TIME, if you work for yourself, it is advisable to review your performance.
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