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Self-Awareness for Self-Empowerment
7 Ways You Underestimate Yourself In Your 20s
But when you learn better, you do better…
“Little Miss Full of Ideas got her bubble burst today!” My immediate supervisor laughed and walked out the door, “Welcome to the real world, pampers,” She said as she closed the breakroom door.
I stood there, unable to respond. My other coworkers turned their heads, looked down, and pretended they didn’t hear the insults hurled at me.
While she was my immediate supervisor, my boss, at the time, was the head of an Enterprise Community covering six Parishes in Louisiana. I took the job in community development because I was “paying my dues as a writer,” making close to no money, snatching up jobs from a Writer’s Market Guide.
Community development wasn’t my passion, nor was it a career choice, but it was (as everyone told me) my opportunity to give back to my community.
It was a somber job, but it was a job. My boss would ask for proposals and ideas for youth programs, and I’d offer up complete proposals with documentation of need, addressing barriers, proven scientific models, and budgets. The proposals were all a part of a program I called G.Y.M. (Getting Youth Motivated).
