Stage Of Jakarta Life:
Consolidation Stage Part 1
After a variable time of perhaps seven to twelve months in Jakarta you will become much more settled. By this time your social needs and the mutual interdependence among your group members for esteem and affection have largely been met. The group dynamics have reached equilibrium. You will be more settled, probably quite content and optimistically looking forward to the challenges ahead.
Your Work
You will probably produce your best work professionally and socially during the Consolidation Stage. Work in its broadest context of paid and unpaid work will assume special significance as some familiar past roles such as Apex Club member, Church member, School Council member have been eliminated.
Your committed work input will be very important to you and to the community as the effectiveness and accomplishment of your section depends on the input of its individual members. It is very important for your self esteem to know that your section or any other department is perceived by the larger Jakarta community to be an efficient progressive group. That can only happen with your work input and commitment.
Your committed work input will be very important to you and to the community as the effectiveness and accomplishment of your section depends on the input of its individual members. It is very important for your self esteem to know that your section or any other department is perceived by the larger Jakarta community to be an efficient progressive group. That can only happen with your work input and commitment.
Intellectual Inertia:
Surprisingly a general lack of interest in the outside world usually develops during the Consolidation Stage. Some people sense this loss of interest developing during the Let-Down Stage. There may well be extra curricular intellectual inertia also: Those plans to learn the Indonesian language, to learn to play a musical instrument, intentions to complete your degree and so on all come to very little.
Often your reading is even of a lower order than usual. Note this inertia will be in contrast to your job performance. Intellectual inertia outside your professional duties may be related to exposure to the prolonged "sameness" of faces, of personalities, a limited social milieu and a relatively simple routine of life. Part of the reason in Jakarta for this intellectual inertia is undoubtedly the frantic social pace.
Perspective
There may be some loss of sense of proportion and perspective shown by a tendency to become unduly preoccupied by trifles, prone to petty annoyances, loss of relativity, inappropriate perception of advertent or inadvertent slights, an increased penchant for contention, mildly overt anti-authoritarianism, undue sensitivity about rights and privileges and the need to take immediate aggressive action in response to grievances either real, imagined or both.
Try to retain some balance. If you find you are still getting upset try to remind yourself that in reality the stakes for you in Jakarta are so small.
Surprisingly a general lack of interest in the outside world usually develops during the Consolidation Stage. Some people sense this loss of interest developing during the Let-Down Stage. There may well be extra curricular intellectual inertia also: Those plans to learn the Indonesian language, to learn to play a musical instrument, intentions to complete your degree and so on all come to very little.
Often your reading is even of a lower order than usual. Note this inertia will be in contrast to your job performance. Intellectual inertia outside your professional duties may be related to exposure to the prolonged "sameness" of faces, of personalities, a limited social milieu and a relatively simple routine of life. Part of the reason in Jakarta for this intellectual inertia is undoubtedly the frantic social pace.
Perspective
There may be some loss of sense of proportion and perspective shown by a tendency to become unduly preoccupied by trifles, prone to petty annoyances, loss of relativity, inappropriate perception of advertent or inadvertent slights, an increased penchant for contention, mildly overt anti-authoritarianism, undue sensitivity about rights and privileges and the need to take immediate aggressive action in response to grievances either real, imagined or both.
Try to retain some balance. If you find you are still getting upset try to remind yourself that in reality the stakes for you in Jakarta are so small.
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