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... 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.
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Date: 2007-11-08 03:19 am (UTC)The game my cousin is playing is to find the least objectionable of the former that's also the most likely to turn into the latter over the course of the next year or three, and then when they get all re-education-ey, blow out of there in a flurry of receipts for dumped stock options and share buyouts.
If he wins two more rounds of this game, he's gonna have enough money to retire. ...in his forties.
Me, I don't gamble, and I don't mind soul-destroying stupidity all that much so long as the mortgage gets paid. That's why I work for the government.