One Year

Three days ago I passed the one-year mark with my current company and, perhaps more importantly, new career path. It has been a decent year but lessons about corporate America have been disheartening. It is all about the bottom line, and far too many times about the short-sighted bottom line at the end of the month, quarter, or year.

My company went through a significant salesforce reorganization in March with plenty of layoffs and territory restructuring. Since then the sensation has been one of being dazed, trying to recover from a stiff blow to the head. Understaffed and underfunded, it has been tough to maintain an adequate focus on growing business when it seems all you can do is try to maintain what you've got.

After a move into a different territory I am trying to grow while maintaining that most golden of dispositions: a positive attitude. I work with some great people and they really do make a difference in my day. I am being patient and hoping that things will change, although I am learning that having patience isn't a common virtue of corporate America. Should I be any different? I still want to be.