mysweetetc replied to your photo âTyping this one-handed because if I stop petting her for more than a...â
Oho! How does she get into trouble?
Sheâs just very inquisitive, and she gets bored easily. Dearbornâs content to sit in the window and watch the world go by or chill in my lap for endless pets, but Polk has to be all up in everything, and her investigation is often inadvertently destructive -- like rummaging in the box full of bbq supplies I keep for grilling or pulling plastic bags out of the bag caddy. Her latest trick is to jump on top of the HVAC unit in the utility closet in the bathroom and bat at the lightbulb cord, which wouldnât be an issue but in order to get to the lightbulb cord she stands on (and then claws at) the insulation around the HVAC pipes. Iâve had to wrap the insulation in cardboard to keep her from destroying it.Â
And then thereâs her most pervasive habit I havenât yet been able to break, which is âdiggingâ the mat where their food sits in order to flip their kibble dish. I donât know why she does this, because she clearly makes the âflipped kibble dish = no kibble to eatâ connection since they wonât eat kibble off the floor (like PLEBES oh my GOD).
Generally speaking, these are behaviors she only gets into when itâs been too long since weâve had structured playtime, so itâs a reminder I need to be playing with her more. But itâs also a question of not immediately playing with her when she does these things because then itâs a reward. So itâs a lot of âGet outta that! Stop it!â and then keeping her from doing it for half an hour before we can have playtime.Â
tienriu replied to your post ârsfcommonplace replied to your post âMe: so should I stick with the...â
When my sisters were hitting this question (also having stayed for years and years in their old companies) one question that seemed to help was if the move would let you go up in your career. Does having this job mean that you can better find another job in the future or is it dead-ending you into one role etc.
Yeah, and itâs something Iâm ambivalent about. On the one hand, the new title has the word âManagerâ in the name, and Iâll be picking up a lot of new skills -- doing prospect management as well as research, and some frontline fundraising. On the other hand, Iâm not sure how helpful it will be to have âmanagerâ in the name and yet not actually be managing anyone. To move up within my field, the next logical step for me would be managing another individual. That said, running a department even if nobody else is in it is still a seniority move from where I am now, and the org Iâm at now hasnât been interested in promoting me (and the potential promotion in the future wouldnât be into management either) so....
geekgirlfibers replied to your post ârsfcommonplace replied to your post âMe: so should I stick with the...â
You may have already received this advice but when you make your pro-con list be sure to weight it.
Oh yes -- and for me a pro/con list isnât usually a scorecard anyway, itâs more a method of making sure all my concerns are in one place. I rarely do them because I read a discussion of them in Chip and Dan Heathâs book âDecisiveâ that offered better alternatives, but in this case I need that map. (Iâm going to re-read Decisive today too.)Â

















