{"id":30187,"date":"2019-09-06T22:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T03:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30187"},"modified":"2019-09-06T22:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T03:08:45","slug":"briefly-theres-no-room-in-our-lives-for-jerks-who-make-us-miserable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30187","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: There\u2019s no room in our lives for jerks who make us miserable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unhappy-at-work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30188\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unhappy-at-work.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unhappy-at-work.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unhappy-at-work-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do so many of us put up with people who make our lives miserable? There\u2019ve been times in my life when I thought I had to put up with one person or a group of people who made me unhappy. Looking back on those situations, I understand that I had alternatives; I was simply choosing not to take the steps necessary to free myself of the jerks and idiots. A friend just shared something that a fellow accountant recently posted on his LinkedIn profile:\u00a0<em>\u201cI have rebranded myself into a Concierge CPA who provides flat fee services for a small group of clients. My main rule for accepting a new client is I have to like you. I don\u2019t care about your politics or personality. But, no more jerks. I don\u2019t care how much money you have, I\u2019m too old to waste any more time.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0This guy has taken control of his life and he\u2019s not going to put up with people who make him miserable. Most of us could learn something from him. There\u2019s no reason to allow anyone in our lives who\u2019s making things worse for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do so many of us put up with people who make our lives miserable? There\u2019ve been times in my life when I thought I had to put up with one person or a group of people who made me unhappy. Looking back on those situations, I understand that I had alternatives; I was simply <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30187\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7QT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30189,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187\/revisions\/30189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}