We’ve got some new business we’ve been working on, and last night, all I did was dream about lasik surgery. Well, for the first half of the night. I woke up multiple times, and each time was after I’d just had some lasik done. I’m actually considering the surgery, more seriously than I ever have before. I think one of my challenges that I didn’t admit to is my own vanity. I feel like my glasses define my look, add character & personality. But the argument for being able to see the moment I open my eyes in the morning outweighs that vanity! <\/p>\n
In any event, I didn’t come here to tell you about THAT dream, but the other one, later in the night. I dreamt that (much like the gasoline crisis) there was a tomato supply crisis. And since much of my job involved chopping tomatoes, I panicked, quit my current job, and went BACK to my old agency in the same day. Without getting their sign-off on hiring me back. As soon as I got there & was waiting to talk to the powers-that-be, I realized I’d made a horrible, horrible mistake. I could weather this tomato crisis. I raced back to my current employer & hoped they hadn’t discovered I’d left. Then I woke up.<\/p>\n
Now, it’s no shocker my old place is floating through my head – they just lost a big chunk of business, and everyone’s buzzing – surprised and not surprised all at once. I still have some friends there, I still care about those people, and I hope they don’t find themselves without jobs in six months. Or they find new ones in the meantime. When I think about some of the other people, I see the smugness, the clubbiness, the superiority complexes & apathy towards change, I hear the public statements to “be more creative! think beyond the numbers” and I remember the pounding down, dressing-down, near-hatred of me when I was told, “you’re too creative! you just don’t GET it! You get to the same conclusion but you don’t do all the research to get there. You don’t fit in.” <\/p>\n
And when I remember those words? And even though those bastard people probably won’t pay the price (and the little people will) for the client loss? I’m ecstatic I’m chopping tomatoes someplace else. <\/p>\n
I’d sworn I’d written a blog several years ago about how complacency kills – maybe I was too paranoid then? I did find a post referencing myself as the Ringleader of the Unhappiness Circus. Now I’m more the Ringleader of the Insane Ass-Clown Posse and our Fabulous Days of Hysterical Laughter. There’s hope, people. It can, and does, change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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