After thousands of living hours you finally joined a huge multi national corporation, on a higher level.
The Good
You earn lots of money. Can someone say $hitload$?
The Bad
You have never paid this much of taxes and you have no time to spend the few left-overs.
The Good
Every woman surrounding you is an intellectual graduate. And they all look awesome.
The Bad
They all could be celebrities.
The Good
As a corporate project leader it looks like everything is finally set to marry one day.
The Bad
You’ll probably marry 4 times and divorce 5 times.
The Good
Finally you don’t have to worry about the bills for your personal consulting team anymore.
The Bad
You might have to add a cardiologist and a psychologist to this team. If that first stroke only happens at 39 it will be a success.
The Good
You have lots of contact with many people world-wide.
The Bad
Why do colleagues in Japan already start working on Monday, while you are writing that one and only blog entry of the week: Sunday night?
Before you could cyber now enjoy your time and catch up, now they Skype you.
The Good
Working a lot keeps you from the street.
The Bad
And out of bed.
Now back to that job I promised a friend. Hopefully I get it done today. Otherwise it will be another day soon.
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1 Lisa // Jan 29, 2007 at 1:46 am// View all comments by Lisa //
Ah, the joys of the corporate world and getting paid the big bucks. Wait, there are no joys in the reality of it are there? Oh the money that’s it.
It’s like we are all hamsters in the big Habitrail of Life. Some of us have bigger Habitrails than others. I’m so jealous that you got the super deluxe Habitrail with the spinning wheels and I…the small tiny one that goes in one little circle.
That graduate degree in IT is looking better everyday…screw HR.
2 franky // Jan 29, 2007 at 1:55 am// View all comments by franky //
I am no graduate. Just a home made hacker. And a knowledge leech/spunge.
Actually even in IT, especially two-zero no one cares about a degree. Look at it, it are all fall-outs. Except when your name is Jobs obviously. But he’s a sucker anyway.
3 Danalyn // Jan 29, 2007 at 2:58 pm// View all comments by Danalyn //
What the hell happened to her nose?
4 Heather // Jan 29, 2007 at 11:19 pm// View all comments by Heather //
So, does the good outweigh the bad?
5 franky // Jan 30, 2007 at 12:47 am// View all comments by franky //
Heather, I really couldn’t say right now. Surely the professional satisfaction is high, damn high.
But the social limitations are heavy.
It all comes down to what one classifies most important. Actually I thought having made a little more than a year ago the choice for the non-professional side of life, but I am a frakking workaholic.
Dunno, I need more time to figure out what outweighs most of all. If only I knew when I have time.
6 suki // Feb 12, 2007 at 12:31 am// View all comments by suki //
We all could use a bit more time. I’m a raccoon these days.