"Don't forget that the most important you need to serve is yourself".
Abso-bloody-lutely. I've seen a lot of people burn out. I've seen a lot more get disgusted and leave, because they were unrecognized / ignored / disregarded. Ekat, every time I've ever seen you, you were busting your @$$. I learned, a while back, something from my wife. She quoted something she'd read, to the effect that "I need to remember that I'm a human being, and not a human doing". I've p!$$ed off enough people over the years, that I'm not freakin' likely to ever become a peer. I've got the cookies I'm going to get. I only do the service that I get jollies from. Patching people up in Chirurgeon point is fun. Zipping around in a golf cart, having the whole War to myself because the rest of the Security shifts have crashed, is fun. Marshalling, is fun.
Basically, I don't do stuff unless either I'm asked, nicely; or I decided I want to and tell someone I'm available. I hit burnout a few years before you, and haven't done anywhere near as much as you have. For that matter, you've done more than me, in half the time.
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Abso-bloody-lutely. I've seen a lot of people burn out. I've seen a lot more get disgusted and leave, because they were unrecognized / ignored / disregarded. Ekat, every time I've ever seen you, you were busting your @$$. I learned, a while back, something from my wife. She quoted something she'd read, to the effect that "I need to remember that I'm a human being, and not a human doing". I've p!$$ed off enough people over the years, that I'm not freakin' likely to ever become a peer. I've got the cookies I'm going to get. I only do the service that I get jollies from. Patching people up in Chirurgeon point is fun. Zipping around in a golf cart, having the whole War to myself because the rest of the Security shifts have crashed, is fun. Marshalling, is fun.
Basically, I don't do stuff unless either I'm asked, nicely; or I decided I want to and tell someone I'm available. I hit burnout a few years before you, and haven't done anywhere near as much as you have. For that matter, you've done more than me, in half the time.