It demonstrates that all conflict is not bad, and that some conflict in fact can serve as an impetus for the improvement of professional goals and personal skills. It is always a risk to admit failure in any situation, and yet the importance of admitting and learning from failure is frequently essential in the process of self-development. Through this rather frustrating experience in which I learned that I needed greater skills and education in order to continue to improve my professionalism and job attainment I have also generated a rather fundamental understanding of the importance of listening to my inner voice. My inner voice told me that I should not take the job and that I would not fit in, but having ignored this inner voice, I also learned a great deal about myself, my historical education and skills and most importantly that if you at first ignore your inner voice you must listen to it later and illicit...
Had I never entered this period of employment I may have never questioned my skills or realized the need to improve upon my interpersonal communication skill or my education. I was a party in the situation, and I did not immediately take an active role in solving the problems that occurred. Had I immediately told Jim, my boss that I did not feel confident in editing his work, he may have immediately questioned my ability to do my job, or he may have understood where my weaknesses were, i.e. self-confidence and attempted to help me improve this to a degree that would have helped me improve the situation, early on. Either way the situation may still have turned out the same, then I would still have learned a great deal about myself and my abilities.
