… Is a banner of comfort zones, of running away and hiding from responsibility in your safe cubicle of the things you already know how to do which require little to no effort. Masked as self-confidence and delegating skills in some instances and fake modesty that fills in for laziness in others, it is in fact moral, intellectual and emotional cowardice 101.

If you are here and a problem arises, given that there is no one who is extremely more qualified than you to fix it present (taking over in this case is just plain bad use of resources) and you cannot call in someone who knows more than you – yes it is your job to deal with it and not hide. Sure you may make a wrong choice, a mistake or screw it all up, but this option is open to anyone else that tries as well. You’re not special here and you don’t get to dodge responsibility because you don’t feel like it now. You’ll never feel like it, but here it is and it is waiting. Saying “That is not my job” says “I don’t want to grow”, “I don’t want to be challenged” “I am not competent to deal with unplanned things”, “I’m a drone whose job could easily be replaced by an algorithm”…

You did not get the ability of long term memory in order to accurately remember past events. This function is a minor function and not that accurate at all. You’ll remember some things and completely miss others and memories will mutate through time or get discarded. The purpose of memory is to be able to learn from mistakes and not repeat them in order to up your chances of survival and reproduction. So yes, all that arises in the domain around you is your job even if you’re unqualified. You get to “qualified” by starting from “unqualified”. Self-reliance and self-respect cannot be mandated into one self by positive affirmations; it has to be earned in real life. You’ll need to build them by taking real risks and showing yourself you can deal with any kind of fallout, you need to develop mechanisms that can sustain you and carry you through the patches when things don’t go as planned and when you’re left in an unknown territory.

No, this situation might not really be in your job description, but you don’t live to fit a description on a piece of paper but in order to be able to fall asleep with a clean conscience, knowing you did what had to be done and what you could do. If not a single f*** is given not a single one will be received. Snap out of your safety girdle and step up, ask more of yourself. Your life is your job and all the moments of the day will cumulate into a lifetime, each one counts. Become someone you can respect – That’s your job.