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This sentence is going to haunt me:

"...belief in others’ perceptions of competence over my own preferences for how I wanted to be known — personally and professionally."

I feel this pretty deeply...sometimes I feel like the details of *what* I worked on overshadowed the skills I applied to those details.

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Dec 8, 2023Liked by Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins

This 👉👉👉. “At some point, however,  my Exes confined me; they created confusing subplots in my narrative. I wondered if I was saying to the world, I USED to matter. This other stuff I’m doing now, doesn’t.”

Great stuff - Framing is everything! Bravo and thanks for articulating it all- emboldens me and I’m sure others!

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Dec 13, 2023Liked by Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins

This made me think deeply. I have not given my LinkedIn account or my resume a good clean-up, and they need it. I do think of myself in terms of ex's by keeping old folders of projects in my Google Drive. So it's a private ex, but I know I keep them around because they make me feel good to see everything I've worked on. So kind of like still wearing a ring even though the marriage is over to remind myself of who I've been and what I've done. Though I need the Google Drive space, so it's probably time to clean things out.

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I am not the one to help you with this...I could find any email I sent, or sent to me, in the last 20 years probably.

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