This week has been odd. What I have learned working in this golden kingdom is well here goes a list of my odd encounters with people who have way more rank that I have.
1. My friend and I were working out in the gym where we run into said officer almost a bird but not quite there. Nonetheless the dude lets us use his towel; little did I know using his towel constitutes a new gym buddy. Everytime I see him downstairs he asks me if and what I plan on working out today. Lesson learned: next time leave the ACU jacket on.
2. I no longer have a name in the Army. I will now refer to myself as PAO. Yes it’s always Hey PAO. It’s obvious the name tape directy on my right shoulder is invisible.
3. Because of this I must have spell checker written on my forehead. The star enlisted type and the almost a bird next to me kept asking me “how do you spell this”…It’s quite nice to know that people with that much rank are still human.
I stopped blogging for awhile. Actually since July. I honestly stopped doing a lot of things and regaining other habits. Not always good.
Today I have learned that yes i’m human. I can honestly say that if i get out of the Army and not reenlist (still on the fence) I’m leaving the Army knowing that the term “taking care of Soldiers” is very true…at least in my case.
This brings me to another point. I may not always love the Army. Yes I always Love my job but thats a separate blog. The Army sometimes like everything in life aggravates me. However, what other job is going to care like the Army does. When messed up personal stuff happens the Army makes sure the Soldier is okay..
If you’re shaking your head disagreeing with this it’s because you must have bad leadership.
Bringing me to another point. I have been lucky (minus the last deployment) because in my short little adventure playing Soldier I have had really good leaders. Officer and enlisted.
Again making it hard to go to the dark side of being a civilian 🙂
Finally, the last 12 months has been eye opening, career wise. I work in the best office in the entire Army. This is a true fact!!!!
Even more incredible, is I work with enlisted leaders who make me feel bad when I make poor choices.
In closing, someone once told me to make sure they were in my decision making process, a few even showed me the “light” but it took today to wake up and smell the roses.
So my point is this…Never underestimate the influence and power you have over someone. Even if you think they aren’t listening it might just take a while. A few people were in my thought process decision making process. I made a huge…HUGE life decision. I chose one thing over the other…
And the thing I chose I will fight for until the very end…
Why you might ask?
Because someone or someone(s) were in my thought process…and I swear if in 10 years from now if I can obtain half of said knowledge, leadership, mentoring and everything else I have put to the side the last month or so that he/she or they have…I will be fullfilled.
Thats it..I’m happy…
Until next time
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