Do you ever feel like a new member of the Enterprise?

[Eman1986]

Has anyone else ever gotten to the point of their life where they feel like a new lowly member of the Enterprise? Less like Decker or Pulaski, but more like Ensign Mendon, the endings during Lower Decks or even Barclay when he first joined the D.

I don't even mean necessarily the uneasy feeling of joining a new company or team as a job, but just as a way of life. Like when you finally move forward socially in your life, but you are the newb that is looked down on for your awkwardness and lack of experience.

 

[Gryffindorian]

No

 

[Butters]

Like when you move from the old industrial working class heartlands, where people are dependent on the state and resort to petty crime to survive, to a prosperous university town, where money isn’t really an issue, and some pick out your accent for ridicule, involve you in some activities that need the numbers, but then disappear without explanation for the real fun and return with great anecdotes about their weekend on the lake etc?

Nah.

Or those times where you’re sent in to present to the board. They keep you waiting from eight am, after a three hour drive, until after one pm, and when you do go in starved, they sit eating gormet sandwiches and nibbles, offer you nothing, don’t even quiz you on the figures and facts you’ve memorised, and the nearest you get to food is that chunk of salmon half spat at you by the FD as he asks you to tell Daisy on your way out that they need more coffee.

Nah.

 

[2takesfrakes]

It's always great meeting someone new. I like people and I've never felt awkward around them, being the new person. Certainly never "lowly." As an Artist, I can't compare myself to others. Artists provide people taste and style, which they depend on. Art is power. I discovered that as a little boy, when I was in Church, on Sunday morning. Looking around, I noticed the exquisite paintings, statues and stained glass, all encouraging The Faithful to consider God and the scriptures with the stained glass, especially, filtering in beams of light ... it was using Art to communicate with God. And then there was David & Goliath, so faithfully depicted and utilised by every organisation, whether political, or spiritual, of the underdog coming out on top. It's a representation that is immediately recognised as representing something we can all connect with. And when those around me, at so tender and age, realised I had a talent for drawing, they were instantly fascinated and took great interest in even the roughest sketch or doodle I'd made. And then, I'd get requests, "can you draw me this?" for a tattoo, or whatever and on and on ... being an Artist has always served me well.

And being brought up as a Roman Catholic, I was raised with a certain work ethic and taught to be disciplined when it comes to that. As da Vinci once eloquently put it, "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." I work very hard as an Artist involved in the Hospitality Industry, where I get to meet people, all the time. With me, though, it's not always a matter of accomplishing something, as much as its the process I enjoy the most, I think. And you'd be surprised, people in various industries are very happy to talk about what it is they do and give advice. But information and opportunity are not the same thing and niche markets can be surprisingly small. Poor people cut back when times are hard, that's why they're poor ... because that's the time to spend. You want to show people you're successful, that's the important thing. Never let them see you as anything less than your best and you're doing it for yourself. Not them. You and you, alone. Those are the things I focus on ...

 

[Avro Arrow]

Poor people cut back when times are hard, that's why they're poor ... because that's the time to spend. You want to show people you're successful, that's the important thing.

So it's the poor peoples' own fault... for not spending the money they don't have?? Seriously?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't feel "lowly" at all.

Indeed, I relish the thought of being a cog in a greater machine. As I'm sure all of the crewmembers on the Enterprise (or any other Starfleet vessel) would be; regardless of rank, everyone on the ship is still important, and they all have things to contribute to the functioning of the organization as a whole.

That's how I feel in my job, and in my life. I may not be a leader, but my job still has value, and I'm proud to do the work that I do. Everyone can make a difference, regardless of rank or position.

 

[Refuge]

Never felt lowly ever. I know I'm pretty special.