Yep, I'm in this with you all. My comment on the business side of things...I offer to help more than I should and early in my career and relationships I found myself having to be in two places at the same time to solve everyone else's problems....just to hit my joy meter. Later, I found that my friendliness led to women thinking I was hitting on them. That also caused problems with my long term girlfriend at the time.
After many years of working on this untamed horse, I've found another problem. By saying yes to helping and problem solving many business situations and opportunities, I've become the sucker. By not getting legal contracts and having faith in others, my colleagues have taken info on a handshake and profitted from it. They did not remember that I had solved their problem, nor did they worry that they should have monetarialy rewarded me. That has led to some disappointment, burn out, and slight depression. But we rebound, don't we.
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Yep, I'm in this with you all. My comment on the business side of things...I offer to help more than I should and early in my career and relationships I found myself having to be in two places at the same time to solve everyone else's problems....just to hit my joy meter. Later, I found that my friendliness led to women thinking I was hitting on them. That also caused problems with my long term girlfriend at the time.
After many years of working on this untamed horse, I've found another problem. By saying yes to helping and problem solving many business situations and opportunities, I've become the sucker. By not getting legal contracts and having faith in others, my colleagues have taken info on a handshake and profitted from it. They did not remember that I had solved their problem, nor did they worry that they should have monetarialy rewarded me. That has led to some disappointment, burn out, and slight depression. But we rebound, don't we.