just something that’s been on my mind lately…
“My first days were painful. I spent hours upon hours behind my desk trying to figure out what I was supposed to do. Every time B had his back turned, I called my best friend, who was a journalist, and way smarter than me, and she explained everything to me with more patience than I could believe. … What happened because of this first experience is that I realized that I’m capable of… working. And even loving what I do! I understood that with energy and desire, you learn quickly. I was starting having just a little bit of that faith in myself.” “Joan excels in the office. She’s respected as a woman and someone who keeps the ship running. But she lost some of that power, so she lost some of her confidence. There’s nothing more fun than being good at what you do and I think she missed that.” Christina Hendricks, on her character Joan Holloway on Mad Men The idea of capability. Isn’t this the kind of attitude we all want to have towards our work, whatever it is? When you’re good at it, and you love it, and that in itself blurs the line between work and fun. Something to strive for, anyway.
