worthless part-timing attitude

I'm selfish sometimes. I also know that despite any other notions, the world does not always revolve around me. So will you tell me why my feelings get hurt when I read something like this: "you need not be here for any of the events." Yes, I'm part-time. Yes, I'm there only one day a week with them. Yes, I'm a pain in their asses because I ask too many questions because I am not informed about anything. Yes, the week of September 25 is going to be huge and historical. And no, I don't get to be a part of it.

Instead my only duties that week are to go to a high school in Allen Park to talk up the youth volunteer program. This shouldn't be meant as a bad thing, after all it will help constitute my business card titles (weekend manager/youth volunteer coordinator), but still, there is nothing else. I wasn't asking to stumble through the VIP event/opening or even that of the media, but rather just a simple evening for members and volunteers to come check out the new digs. And to my grandest delight and most sound prediction, I am stationed at the big D that weekend, only left to imagine the festivities on Woodward. But that's okay, someone's gotta run the Dossin, it might as well be me. I do it best.

Someday, maybe, my sacrifices will pay off and appreciation shown. But maybe only someday.