So… sort of a weird topic to broach, but what the heck. Sort of along the lines of ten things people don’t know about you, right? Yeah, whatever.

The thing is, I wonder to myself why I’m often so frustrated with coworkers, or why I react to certain situations in the way that I do. I know, everyone does that. I got a cold the other day, though, and my dad said something that was only tangentially related at the time, which was that I tended to take things “too personally.” I didn’t, and don’t think it was relevant to that particular conversation, but overall, he’s definitely right-ish.

I think of it slightly differently: you’re either with me, or you’re against me.

Not that that’s how I *want* to categorize the way I view people – that’s just the way it is, right now. Where that’s the most relevant is in my relationships with coworkers, simply because that’s where I do most of my collaborative working towards a common goal. I’ve worked in a couple really varied situations over the years. At one company, I was most certainly the least competent person there. At another, I’ve been vastly superior to all of my peers. At still another, I felt a sense of parity with my coworkers, for the most part. So, completely different situations.