The best arrival is where one’s destination is a happy and well-ordered one. That’s not always possible, sadly. One may take a new job in a community where a few act selfishly and wrongly.
It’s unsettling to arrive to a situation like that. The pressure for the newcomer to go along, to accept bad practices and self-interested behavior, will be nearly overwhelming.
One will hear everything: that’s how it’s done here, that’s how it should be done here, and that those entrenched few are ‘good’ people, and so cannot be wrong on policy.
It would be easier if Whitewater, Wisconsin were already well-ordered. I wish that it were. One day it will be.
Not yet. The newcomer’s challenge awaits, serious, difficult, and unenviable.