"This ain't the UN, people." Trying to channel my inner peace using the advice of the sage Tamara Levitt... I remember when she shared a story about the time she used to work in a bustling restaurant and she had a manager who would share this message with the employees to keep things in perspective. I love it. It helps me, now, since the work I'm doing for my salary does not equate to a matter of life or death. I don't know how much it would have helped me when I was a journalist working as a local news reporter because, actually, the decisions I made very much came with real-life consequences... As the editor of the newspaper myself, any errors I ran would be my fault so the stakes were high (good thing I didn't run errors 😉). Even when my copy editor added a mistake to my copy, ironically, my name is in the byline. So I deal with the consequences. Speaking from experience AAAND that's partially why I don't work as a journalist anymore.
