I have left the Chapel job. You need to feel good about yourself and not be afraid to walk away from some of life’s battles. You do not have to fight every one!

To make a long story short, and since a lot of the issues would not make much sense to you, I have left the Chapel job after 22 months when it became clear that my talents and abilities were seen as a detriment as opposed to a benefit.

I am now a unit orderly where my sole responsibility is to empty four trash cans at 9PM each evening. The Chapel job was paying me $70 a month and this one pays $15; talk about downsizing! But it is truly amazing the improvement in my mental health by removing myself from what was a very tension-producing job.

It has reinforced a life changing aspect of how I need to make decisions in my life. There are situation where, no matter how good or right I may be, I simply need to move on.

In the past, my behavior would have led me to stay and fight to the bitter end, and then end up feeling a sort of entitlement to do other things. While this is a very, very simplistic and superficial example, I am saying that in the past my false sense of entitlement was certainly a contributing factor to some of my less-than-honorable behavior.

I am still a person of value. The giving up of the Chapel job has taught me that sometimes money can be a blinding spot. I am missing the time I had on the piano but I have learned that through hard work I can accomplish things that in the past I would not have thought possible.
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