I have found that the most effective way to feel good about yourself is to leave something while you're relatively ahead. I'm not recommending quitting as an everyday life choice, but just like choosing to hit a tennis ball while it is still moving up after it bounces, you can choose to leave a situation when things are still good.
This, of course, is generally a cowardly way to live (not the tennis part- that's just smart physics). But sometimes transitions just happen to work this way, and when they do, you should enjoy the moment. This is my last week at my store before transferring to a new store in town and a new title, with more responsibilities and more pressure. At my current store, I'm still in the lowest position available to someone at Starbucks (a barista- although rumor has it there is such a thing as a cafe attendant, who literally just does lobby slides all day- blech), but I've been there long enough that I'm pretty good at it. I've also been at my specific store long enough to be the partner with the fourth-longest record of time employed at our store, which means that I've helped train (in some way... probably by counter-example a lot of the time) most of the people on our staff. This means that people are generally sad to see me go. Not all of them, I know, but a few, and the few who are vocalizing their feelings are making my week.
Yep. That's right. I enjoy hearing that I'll be missed. I am, in fact, that self-absorbed. But mostly, I'm pretending I'm a bear eating up everything in sight in preparation for hibernation. This way, when I'm at my new store and screwing things up left and right and having to go cry in the bathroom on my breaks, I'll have some sunny memories to draw on and I'll know that things will get better (things seemed to start this way at my current store, and look how they turned out). Or that, at the very least, some people would be very glad to take me back.
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