Meetings

Meetings can be taxing.

 

On my first job, I used to like attending meetings.  I enjoyed meeting people, hearing each one speak, seeing some listen, and the others doing their own thing.  Then not long after, I have slowly started disliking it.  Now on my third job after two years from graduation, I have come not to like it.

 

I have just arrived in my workplace from a meeting - a very long meeting.  Imagine being in the same room with four smart and assertive men for four hours.  Thankfully there were other two ladies in the meeting, who sort of made me a little more comfortable.

 

For the most part, I simply listened.  I talked a bit, more than my usual self during previous meetings where I very rarely let them hear my voice.

 

In that meeting, I again found myself asking if this was really the kind of work that I want.  Or if this was really the kind of work that best suits me.  But then, I had to place myself in the actual situation where the team was finalizing the presentation and bill due for quite a time already.  And after that, I had to place substance to that material.  So there went my question again - "Can I do this, or do I want this?"

 

Oh, meetings.