I’m brooding about my larger professional involvement these days.
Since I joined SLA, I’ve:
- shamefully neglected my responsibilities for contributing to the SLA IT Division Blogging Section Blog
- let the chapter blog I’m editor for deteriorate into something that’s largely a repository for event listings already posted to the mailing list
- not gone to any events other than board meetings and one dine-around (which I was late to)
Admittedly, I have made efforts to drum up contributions to the blog, but obviously not hard enough. And the reason I haven’t attended events is because, without a car, I’m pretty much condemned to take multiple buses and/or trains to any given event starting several hours beforehand.
I also joined AIIP. And have since become one of those people they (rightfully) look down on, someone who dipped his toe in the water when he was unemployed and hasn’t taken the plunge and started his own business. I’m late with a book review I promised, the one solid obligation I had.
So while I’m learning at the new job, I feel I’m a failure in terms of the larger profession.
August 8, 2008 at 10:36 am
Doesn’t sound like you’re a failure to me! You’re just setting priorities, as we all should. When you didn’t have a job, your priority was looking for one. When you found one, it became your priority. I say, good job
August 9, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I’m late with my book review, too. Don’t sweat it.