Need to change focus
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Need to change focus
Hi, dear Friends.
I really hate to write this message... I know it's yet another one. But SR has seen many similar messages before. I have learned at work over the past week that we'll need me in a broader range of responsibilities and with a much higher intensity of daily participation also, otherwise we'll lose some important sources of funding this year. The funding sources are unfortunately grants that I initiated when I started this job, and if they go, I'll go with them as well. All this means here is that I will definitely not be able to be on here as much as I have been during the past year. I wanted to share this instead of just cutting down my participation or disappearing silently.
I often don't even understand how I could hold this high-profile job over the past ~5 years, while drinking, and in the last year of recovery. Whatever it's been, I know now that it needs me more than before, and I won't be able to afford to use so much of my time to interact here. Either this, or not only my career will have a fall, but more importantly quite many people's career as well would be damaged, who have been working with me during the past ~5 years in these projects.
I will of course still check in, read, and hopefully post at times, but not as frequently as I have been in the past year.
SR and you guys here saved my life and for that I'll be grateful forever. It's not a goodbye message, just to let you know that I'm seriously changing my life now, again, to what I believe is the betterment for a bunch, myself and beyond myself, and what holds deeply meaningful messages for me and for others around me
I really hate to write this message... I know it's yet another one. But SR has seen many similar messages before. I have learned at work over the past week that we'll need me in a broader range of responsibilities and with a much higher intensity of daily participation also, otherwise we'll lose some important sources of funding this year. The funding sources are unfortunately grants that I initiated when I started this job, and if they go, I'll go with them as well. All this means here is that I will definitely not be able to be on here as much as I have been during the past year. I wanted to share this instead of just cutting down my participation or disappearing silently.
I often don't even understand how I could hold this high-profile job over the past ~5 years, while drinking, and in the last year of recovery. Whatever it's been, I know now that it needs me more than before, and I won't be able to afford to use so much of my time to interact here. Either this, or not only my career will have a fall, but more importantly quite many people's career as well would be damaged, who have been working with me during the past ~5 years in these projects.
I will of course still check in, read, and hopefully post at times, but not as frequently as I have been in the past year.
SR and you guys here saved my life and for that I'll be grateful forever. It's not a goodbye message, just to let you know that I'm seriously changing my life now, again, to what I believe is the betterment for a bunch, myself and beyond myself, and what holds deeply meaningful messages for me and for others around me
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NYC
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Haennie, congratulations on your success -- you're needed, and that's important.
I suggest -- just a suggestion, mind you -- that you adopt a couple of spots on SR where you check in daily. It doesn't need to take more than a minute -- there are lots of places under Daily Support -- but it can be a lifeline if other pressures get strong and seem to crowd out the strength of your recovery.
Best wishes!
I suggest -- just a suggestion, mind you -- that you adopt a couple of spots on SR where you check in daily. It doesn't need to take more than a minute -- there are lots of places under Daily Support -- but it can be a lifeline if other pressures get strong and seem to crowd out the strength of your recovery.
Best wishes!
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