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Originally Posted by Perna
I would first work on getting comfortable with myself and my personality and knowing what it is I want. If you feel you do not do well with supervision and want to work alone, etc. then I would take that into account and find a career that gives you most of that. If I got a lot of feedback that "everyone" thought I was too orderly and uptight, I would look harder at that to see if I wanted to work on any of my habits/thought patterns to see if I could fit better with others.
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I used that approach as well, to the point of even going to counseling to figure out what I could '"fix." Then it turned out, the counselor didn't see anything wrong with me and thought the work environments I was in were chaotic and unprofessional. She had a lot of corporate work experience and saw the good and the bad, so I trusted her judgement. I will be honest, changing who I was and adjusting my personality was really taxing on me, mentally, emotionally and intellectually. It is really difficult to have to be an entirely different person at work. The counselor told me I was in the wrong line of work, so I ditched it and am going elsewhere. My concern is, I'll just encounter the same issues. I experienced similar issues at my last job without the emotional and mental drama. I know there's always going to be some kind of drama, but there is mild workplace drama and then there is CRAZY.