RE: Burnout

[Neil Frank <nfrank@mindspring.com>]

As long as people are dumping, I will add mine to the pile. I have also
been frustrated with the AGA. One item was the recent communications with
Mary. I thought that her whining was not warranted, but as I have done
before, I did what I thought was best for the organization. I am sorry if
others do not agree.  Regarding the convention, I give Charlene  high marks
for her energy and follow-thru, but I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED about the way we
(the SC) are proceding. Like Erik, I feel that I am hitting my head against
the wall with my suggestions. My approach is to take a longer view and to
develop a strategy for the next few years. I made that suggestion in a
recent short SC (or MC) email, offering to be one of a small group to
devise a multi-year convention speakers plan and quickly make
recommendations to the SC.  I suggested that others may want to similarly
address the financial issues. I did not see a single reply. 

Now I have more serious issues to deal with. My brother just passed away
from a brief battle with cancer, and as I have said in a recent email :
Life is too short to be wasting time on non-sense. I am not fully thru the
grieving process and I am overloaded with being the executor of his estate
and looking after his surviving teenagers. Like Erik, I look forward to the
end of my term as a member of this SC.

Neil

At 03:22 PM 04/02/2001 -0300, David Lass wrote:
>Erik -- I can understand your burnout -- just hope we can work things out to
>ease the pain.
>Towards that end I have come across a thing called "Intranets.com" We are
>using it for my house down here in St. Thomas. It allows any number of
>people with different authorization levels to follow a single thread of a
>posted topic. Please take a look at it
>www.intranets.com
>I think this would be muich easier than long emails that get lost in the
>shuffle and all.
>Take care,
>david
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-aga-sc@thekrib.com [mailto:owner-aga-sc@thekrib.com]On
>Behalf Of Erik Olson
>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:34 PM
>To: aga-sc@thekrib.com
>Subject: Burnout
>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>Just thought I'd drop a line real quick.  In Mary's reminder note, I
>remembered I've had a few things to say that I've been too busy to write
>down (and still am too busy, really).
>
>I am now almost halfway through my "term" as steering committee chair
>(treating it as a two year position, I started in early May). Over the
>past year I have shared the utter frustration voiced by Karen and Bob
>before me trying to communicate with this group, trying to accomplish
>goals for the association, and trying to enocourage participation by the
>other members of this & the management committee.  I think I have now
>passed beyond this, into a state of apathy and burnout.
>
>An example of this: I have tried two or three times to re-engage
>communication with Bob-Mary's-husband about getting the incorporation
>going, and it's going nowhere.  I don't care anymore.  Nobody else seems
>to either, so I don't really have any motivation for this.
>
>Another one: In the recent decision to appease Mary, Neil cited as his
>reasoning, that this is a volunteer organization and one has to appease
>volunteers or they'll leave.  This really burned me up, because it works
>both ways.  We are all volunteers here too.  And I felt like I've made a
>ton of contributions in the last two years.  I *was* going to make a ton
>more. But you know, if it seems like it's worth more to keep our
>pain-in-the-ass editor for a few more months, than to keep others like me
>happy longer-term, so be it.
>
>I think that as an organization, the AGA needs new blood in this tired
>committee.  The committee needs to communicate, and support the club.
>The club is stagnating. The only area with any life is Charlene's
>convention planning, and she's not getting any help from us. In the last
>year, I have been experienced myself turning from new blood into a whiny
>old guard person, just like everyone else.  I will be leaving May 1st,
>2002.  In the mean time, I will fulfil my duties in the half-assed way
>I've been doing it recently, but not much more unfortunately.
>
>  - Erik
>
>--
>Erik Olson
>erik at thekrib dot com
>
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