Interesting article. I was fighting a dilemma if I would be the first world web addict . Not knowing about Korea earlier, it feels good now to know there is hope .. :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/technology/18rehab.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
I hate my Job !!!
I hate my Job !!! How often do you hear this line? Figuring out our likes and dislikes is a slow - time consuming process. How often do you find yourself at cross roads asking yourself - is this what I really like ? Many of the people who know they hate their jobs work for hours at a stretch. Do you ever ask your self "is this what I want to do the rest of my life?" . The thought of having to do something the rest of my life sounds boring and is discouraging . On the same token the job question is tough to answer as between trying to save your ego and some self respect for having spent 16 + years of your life preparing for a career - how could you not like it or even further not want to do it for the rest of your life ? Fresh out of college - that feeling may seem trivial as you experimenting but after a few years in the industry - you have a dozen promotions , have worked and earned the respect of the folks in the field and now you thinking - do I want to do this anymore?
A mortgage , wife, kids just add to the pressure and more likely we just accept that this is what we are best at and do not know better.Somewhere in the rat race to make a living we forget to follow our dreams . Fresh out of college - I always was told " you are young and can experiment as it gets harder as the years go by" . Call it naive or ignorant - all I cared for then was to be the best at what I do and get that promotion that would put me ahead of the race. Five years gone and nearly earning a promotion every 8 - 10 months I am stuck in a rut , asking myself :" Is this what I want to do the rest of my life?". The competitive spirit still exists - just that in 5 years its the been there done that feeling and the challenge does not seem to lure my interest . Changing the industry was an option and so I looked. Every fortune 50 out there would not take me in at the position I currently hold, partly because of the internal structure and partly a new line of business comes with a different domain. Interviewed with smaller companies and start ups and all I sensed was they want me to make $$ off me. Hell with that , I can go independent and make the dollars instead and feel less exploited. Between the need to go independent and follow my dream to be a nobody , its a hard decision. As a matter of fact , is being a nobody such a big deal ? I don't have all the answers but still trying to figure out the cost of trying to conform to social expectations . On a planet of a few billion people, does everyone become a somebody ? Why is it that society forces people to have some superficial standing to be accepted? I hope I find answers in this lifetime else the struggle will continue and neither will I conform not be a anybody.
A mortgage , wife, kids just add to the pressure and more likely we just accept that this is what we are best at and do not know better.Somewhere in the rat race to make a living we forget to follow our dreams . Fresh out of college - I always was told " you are young and can experiment as it gets harder as the years go by" . Call it naive or ignorant - all I cared for then was to be the best at what I do and get that promotion that would put me ahead of the race. Five years gone and nearly earning a promotion every 8 - 10 months I am stuck in a rut , asking myself :" Is this what I want to do the rest of my life?". The competitive spirit still exists - just that in 5 years its the been there done that feeling and the challenge does not seem to lure my interest . Changing the industry was an option and so I looked. Every fortune 50 out there would not take me in at the position I currently hold, partly because of the internal structure and partly a new line of business comes with a different domain. Interviewed with smaller companies and start ups and all I sensed was they want me to make $$ off me. Hell with that , I can go independent and make the dollars instead and feel less exploited. Between the need to go independent and follow my dream to be a nobody , its a hard decision. As a matter of fact , is being a nobody such a big deal ? I don't have all the answers but still trying to figure out the cost of trying to conform to social expectations . On a planet of a few billion people, does everyone become a somebody ? Why is it that society forces people to have some superficial standing to be accepted? I hope I find answers in this lifetime else the struggle will continue and neither will I conform not be a anybody.
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