Patience (and other stuff)

[turtledisc]

Sometimes I wonder why I'm not more patient - why I always want things to happen immediately.  Right now I'm waiting to hear whether I've made it through to the next round for a job.  Apparently I won't hear whether I have or not until "early next week".  Of course, they told me I would have heard by early last week but apparently it's taking them longer than they thought to decide - always nice to hear.

 I'm pretty sure I know why I'm impatient to hear about this particular circumstance but it made me think.  I'm always like this about everything.  "I want to be doing x now not later", "why do I have to wait so long?" - sometimes it makes it hard to enjoy stuff.  Of course, each time I get like this I think I'll change and be different and I never am.  Lack of willpower or what?

It has to be said that applying for jobs is a fairly depressing business.  Wondering if you're going to get rejected for this position or that position that you think you're ideally suited to.  Listening to everyone else's fantastic advice - while they insist on treating you like an idiot.  "Make sure you do this", "make sure you do that" - I know and I am - give me a little credit for being 28 and having lived, on my own, in a foreign country for 5.5 years without any major disasters.

Oh well, guess I'd better stop there before I get too worked up! :-)