carpe diem
Got word today that a friend of mine isn't doing too good. He's been fighting liver cancer, and the fight is almost over. Young guy, mid 30's, worked for me back in the day when I was director of network operations for a mid-level ISP. Great sense of humor, I sent him out on the road for many a crummy assignment, never complained.
I don't know how it is for you guys, I have a day job that I hate. I took it to help get over a dry patch when I was freelance copywriting, woosh it's almost 5 years later. How does that happen? It's been a productive time personally, we launched Friendly Fire, and it's been a cushy enough gig that my brian is mostly free to focus on other things. Lately though it's become a real drag, I am working too hard, thinking too hard, waiting for the weekend.
Life's too short to keep waiting for the weekend. If that's you too, then let's fix it, this year. I'm looking at five months. Who's with me?
posted by Case at 10:35 AM
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Carpe diem indeed, Case. Life is just too short. My big priority has been my personal life rather than my worklife, but now that things appear to be settling down on that front I think about my job sometimes... it's not what I ever imagined doing. It has its benefits (the steady paycheck comes to mind, which at this time in my life is even more a priority than ever). And my co-workers are wonderful. We don't have that petty political office bullshit going on... we all just work our asses off, tease each other (they've learned I blush at the drop of a hat, so that's highly entertaining for them), laugh... and the alert for deadline crunch time is when the president of the company starts singing at his desk and is soon accompanied by the CADD supervisor joining him with desk-percussion.
We laugh a lot. Laughter is good.
I balance my environment with the fact that the job itself bores me silly. I have to say that's an improvement over the mental stresses of the teaching or legal fields in which I used to work, but I miss the passion I had for both.
For me? It's about balance. I'm still working on it.
Working in a nice environment and with pleasant co-workers is more than half the battle. The people I work with are very nice, but we have almost nothing in common. It's 40 hours a week of small talk. Lovely weather yes, no, I don't watch American Idol, yes, I know I play music but it's not really like that.
I guess what it is, I've been playing in this role for longer than I expected to, and now I am feeling a little typecast. I need to get back to the theater stage and play some different roles again. Something with teeth.
It's more than a little frightening how quickly five years have gone by. I don't think I have ever had the same job for five years in a row.
Yeah, I'm trying to find balance too. Of course, when you glam as many cold ones as I do, losing balance becomes its own art form.
Oooh, where do I sign up? I used to be in a place where there was a real team atmosphere, everybody pitching in for everybody, humour, generosity ... the last few years have seen it turn much more into an uber-corporate shark pool. I miss all the laughter Ajay, you're lucky :) I do love my work, but it's getting that it's being made hard for me to do it with all the other stuff going on.
Likewise, I don't go and get spray tan, I don't have to take a day off sick if I break a nail, my dry cleaning bill is not equivalent to my mortgage and I can't get excited about the new nightclub that has more Porsches parked outside it than any other.
And anyway, it seems a little as though matters might be taken out of my hands - I needed a good kick up the ass to get me out of this rut anyway :)
Let's glam some, talk about equilibrium and plan a giant hippy FF world roadtrip, financed by some patron of the arts! woot!
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