The Tao of Me (Corporate Edition)

Tic-toc, tic-toc, tic-toc. A different office, a different cubicle, a different desk, and certainly a different dress code, and yet I could have sworn that I haven’t moved a muscle in the past 3 years of my fledgling career. If you’re wondering, this would be employment #3.

Some people ask: How the hell do you expect to advance in your career if you don’t know how to stick it out? Oh the horrors of starting again and again at entry level. Stick with what you know, with what you have, where you are and sometime, somehow, and if you’re patient enough, you’d get your due.

That’s fine and dandy. If I had a candy for everytime someone gave me the you-have-so-much-potential-if-only-you-had-the-ambition-to-match-it speech, I’d probably have no teeth by now.

Unfortunately, the dazzle of corporate success doesn't bring out the desire in me. Money is a good thing to have, yes, but this generation's obsession on becoming the corporate rotweiler that's ready to snag the next big corporate bone one after another...well, that's a fever I did not catch. There’s the corporate ladder and everyone’s foaming in the mouth and stumbling over themselves to go climb it. There I am standing a few feet away from the crowded base. There I am. And I. Am. Not. Getting. It. And so I go tra-la-la-ing away to see if there's something else to do. Society has a term for people like me: Irresponsible Imbecile.

I’m sorry. I don’t do that kind of climbing. I'm more of a strolling-up-the-slope kind of person.

Hey, I did have an ambition once upon a time when I was an idealistic little dork. Then I learned to ask “Why? Why should I?”

Because I want to?

Says who? Folks, you think you want to because all your life everyone says you have to.

So until that day that I find a job I know for certain I want or at the very least can compromise with, I will not settle. I'm not one to fear the idea of starting over...Excuse me for trying to resist some ambiguous-know-it-all-theorist’s preconceived plan about how life is supposed to be lived.

Lemme see:

Now I’m born. Check.
Now I’m educated. Check.
Now I work. Check.

Next we wed.
Next we breed.
Next we die.

There’s your happily ever after.

Wow. I can’t wait.



Hamburgers.