Hassan Charles

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Is it the job, or is it me? That question comes up in nearly every first conversation I have, and people usually arrive having already answered it in the least generous way available to them. They have concluded that it must be them. It is often not. Work-related difficulty is often a straightforward mismatch between what a role demands and what a person is built to supply. Treating that mismatch as a character flaw is both inaccurate and very common. We separate the two carefully before deciding anything at all. Some people discover the situation is really wrong for them and others discover something quite fixable, and either finding is more useful than the vague self-blame they walked in with. I still consider this a craft I am refining, and this question in particular has taught me to slow down before agreeing with anybody's assessment of themselves. Those assessments are usually harsher than the evidence supports. If you have already decided it must be you, get in touch and we can check that properly.