there's no light at the end of the tunnel...

[rone]

... but i hear the train coming anyway.

My career is stuck in a bad spot, where i can't afford to work for a place whose output isn't objectionable (like a university or a non-profit organization), so i have to take a job with companies that produce abhorrent things, like social networks or online ad frameworks, and are either megacorporations ridden with politics and bureaucracy, or are minuscule startups run by delusional megalomaniacs who overwork everyone, or they're midsized companies run by decent, smart people and therefore are a target ripe for acquisition and reëducation.  And i'm still too far off my winemaking certificate to seriously enact a career change (and we're back to the "can't afford" part, anyway).  The small business is already a vanishing thing, but it's practically mythic in this industry.  I wonder whether there's anything that can be done about it.

Comments

[palecur.livejournal.com]

I think there's a Boyle's Ideal Gas Law sort of principle at work that drives political backbiting temperature higher as the volume of the stakes decreases.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Is there a like relation that could explain your abhorrent proliferation of awful LiveJournal icons?

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Don't make me bust out the Shameless Hussar again.

[mononeuron.livejournal.com]

> volume of the stakes decreases

Orwell spoke clearly through O'brien.

When Airstrip One learned to sink everything into the sea, or smoke it into the sky, or otherwise waste any excess production, the scarcity made even a lump of horseflesh inestimably valueable.

Ditto, for successes in a success-starved company.

Any little bit of horseflesh is precious.