Reply To: Annual review and planning the year ahead, 2012 A year in the zoo

[shutterbug55]

When I read this, I couldn’t stop laughing. I have a self-assessment and peer review to do this weekend, and I have been putting it off.

I have a difficult time talking about my accomplishments because they seem so insignificant in comparison to other people. “I kept this job for over a year.” If only they could understand how big that is for me. It represents a huge change/improvement for me, but meaningless to anyone without ADD. Another one for me would be “In this last year, I did not make any mistakes that cost the company customers.”

Obviously, those statements will never get onto the review, but they and many like them are floating around in my head. It makes writing resumes, doing interviews, and networking difficult as well.

I am missing my right leg from the knee down, and when I tell people I walked a 2 miles, I get the “That is great!” or “How exciting!” in that sing-song tone of voice people use on old people and children. I had some work done on my leg and my prosthetic, so walking 2 miles doesn’t hurt nearly as bad as it used to and I have been working up to it for a while now.

I finally got statements and examples into my review that I think will not produce those sing-song responses.

I hate reviews.

 

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