I’m starting to get some interviews set up. I have one tomorrow with Perfect Pitch and one I need to contact back to set up a time. It will probably be next Wednesday.

I’m actually pretty nervous. I never thought I’d find myself in this position.

This morning I was listening to The Power of WHO audiobook. There was a chapter that really hit the nail on the head for me.

Essentially it said that there will be people who will never be impressed by your work. You can try as hard as you can to please them and the harder you try, the more frustrated you will be. You eventually have to get a clue and move on. Go somewhere where you are celebrated, not just tolerated.

That’s how I’m feeling now. It doesn’t matter what I do at this point, it won’t be good enough for Joel. As long as I have to work with him I won’t be happy.

The sad and ironic part of this story is that when I chat with Dan (the CEO) I feel like he does recognize and appreciate my work, but I get the opposite feeling from Joel.

So now I don’t know if I try to send and email to Dan and express how I feel and see if I can change roles or report to someone else in the company, or if I should just move on. I guess what makes me nervous is that if I send the email and I get fired I don’t have anywhere else to go right now, so I almost feel like I need to have a back-up plan first.