Dear Margot: Lost Opportunity?

Dear Margot,

“I finally got the position I wanted at my job but I feel like it’s just way too much. How do I let go of this opportunity for the sake of my mental health after yearning for it for so long?”

Hey, reader! I’m sorry to hear the circumstances. There’s nothing wrong with letting go of something if it’s for the better, especially if that better is your mental health because there is nothing more important in your life than you. I understand how this can be a hard decision for you to make since you’ve been wanting this position, but you can always try again when you’re truly ready, and even if the same position isn’t available when you are, you could possibly end up with one better.

Now one way to view and go about this situation is by you stepping down to get more experience and become mentally prepared for the position since if you went back after you stepped down it wouldn’t be your first time experience so you would already have a premise of what’s going on and what to do. Also stepping down would give someone else the opportunity to be in a better position, so maybe someone who needs or deserves it more.

Now the other way to look at and go about this is that you keep the position instead and adapt to the new environment because even though it’s hard now, if you keep on pushing eventually it will become easy and that goes for anything in life. You just have to have the right attitude and mindset because that’s really all it takes to do anything. Whichever way you decide to go about it this will be an opportunity to grow, mentally and possibly characteristically.

I hope this is able to help you,

Margot

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