🌱 Growth spurts 🌿

My kids’ clothes are almost always either too loose or too tight.

Depending on which items I grab in the morning rush, Alan will be either swimming in his clothes…OR a large portion of his ankles will be poking out conspicuously from the ends of his pant legs.

Every time I think I’ve got it, someone grows again — so I get the next size up, which is always too big. And then we’re back to socks that go up to their knees and pants that I have to roll up or cut off to keep them from tripping.

It seems impossible for their clothing to fit perfectly. But I know that this is how it goes. Someday, they’ll hit their adult size, and things will level out.

It’s a good reminder that what some random company deems an “average” size range almost never applies to a real human being’s experience.

It’s also a good reminder that, in your career, everything is NOT going to fit exactly perfectly.

We all “try things on” in our careers. Things sometimes don’t “fit well”, and we can’t get comfortable. (Like me, trying to speak directly to a camera…I LOVE being behind a camera, but I HATE being in front of one).

It might be that it’s truly not right for us…or we just might not yet have grown enough to fit it properly…but we’ll get there!

Then again, sometimes something will fit like a glove for a long time and then we have a “growth spurt” - and it suddenly feels all wrong. Suddenly we can no longer be satisfied with how things always were.

Where are you in your career? Too loose, too tight, or just right?

— Cathy