I was snooping around and asking all kinds of questions to all those people “Who need to know me” for no particular reason but just that I seem to have a lot more freedom and time on my hands; be in a position to attend any cousin’s wedding and have all the time to watch a movie and still make my money. What did I ask them? Well, the fairly ubiquitous “How are you doing?” – The Answer goes “Life sucks, man!” I ask why — this is what I bet my life on — “My job is shit. I hate my boss. I hate my job and I hate myself”.
I came across this blog on “20 Bulls**t jobs” on Stanley Bing, featured by the CNN money website and one read through it made me a believer all the more on the advantages of leveraging your skills and competence for yourself and not for a lousy boss who takes all the credit for your sorry butt’s hard work and then leaves you with a little paycheck that won’t impress a hungry squirrel (even if you placed the world’s biggest, juiciest nut on that paycheck to seduce it)
I could never understand one about most of you out there — just how one earth could you compromise on something as vital as life? Career? The work that you choose to do has to be hauled on your being, for a good 45 years of your working life — you call that a career– and you choose to do something that would barely you fetch even a smile, forget the millions of dollars you have been dreaming while smoking put and gulping beers. In case you forgot, all that dreaming and working your a** off made someone else rich. Makes you happy? My dearest, all-too-generous sweetie pie?
If your job isn’t preparing your for a better job, or bring you in the kind of money that you can live your dreams with, then quit, but don’t complain. Get an attitude over-haul, buddy! Life is too precious to waste time on jobs that don’t mean a damned thing to you.