Mid week
I'm done in...
Besides going out on visits, sorting out Ms nympho (who was in again today) .. I've started coming in early and going home late as i've had to give courses for the last two days.
Tomorrow is pretty much the same and i've gotta try and see a client tomorrow "from three pm onwards".
I'm completely shot to bits.
Question : Why do i whinge about my job all the time ?
Answer : Because i hate it.
Question : Why do i hate it ?
Answer : Because from the minute i get in until the moment i walk out, i'm being solicited from the start. I don't have time to breathe. I'm being suffocated by non stop demands. Everything must be done straight away and i work in a state of perpetual urgence, i can"t see one task right through 'till the end .. aaaaaand i have to perpetuate a happy face and generally pretend to be Monsieur Superman all day long.
All i really want is : silence .. no grief .. no aggro ... no bitchin' .. no prise de tête as they say in french..
I've had enough ... a gutfull.
I want to disappear ... go walkabout ... dreamtime ... go find me some drugs .. i dunno
I just need a period of calm ..
A padded cell ? Hell yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gimme gimme gimme .. can i fake my way into St Anne's ?
Am i really that deperate ?
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft
I'm in my mid thirties now and i'm fucked if i'm gonna stay on this godforsaken treadmill until the day i die ... retirement ??? ... fuggeditt ...
So what do you do ? (helpful anwsers in the comment section please !!)
Besides going out on visits, sorting out Ms nympho (who was in again today) .. I've started coming in early and going home late as i've had to give courses for the last two days.
Tomorrow is pretty much the same and i've gotta try and see a client tomorrow "from three pm onwards".
I'm completely shot to bits.
Question : Why do i whinge about my job all the time ?
Answer : Because i hate it.
Question : Why do i hate it ?
Answer : Because from the minute i get in until the moment i walk out, i'm being solicited from the start. I don't have time to breathe. I'm being suffocated by non stop demands. Everything must be done straight away and i work in a state of perpetual urgence, i can"t see one task right through 'till the end .. aaaaaand i have to perpetuate a happy face and generally pretend to be Monsieur Superman all day long.
All i really want is : silence .. no grief .. no aggro ... no bitchin' .. no prise de tête as they say in french..
I've had enough ... a gutfull.
I want to disappear ... go walkabout ... dreamtime ... go find me some drugs .. i dunno
I just need a period of calm ..
A padded cell ? Hell yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gimme gimme gimme .. can i fake my way into St Anne's ?
Am i really that deperate ?
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft
I'm in my mid thirties now and i'm fucked if i'm gonna stay on this godforsaken treadmill until the day i die ... retirement ??? ... fuggeditt ...
So what do you do ? (helpful anwsers in the comment section please !!)
posted by Damiel | 8:40 PM
5 Comments:
What you do is what an American man in his mid thirties with your talent, charisma and energy would have been encouraged to do a long time ago.
Work for yourself, and from home. (no I’m not selling you anything!)
You’ll work just as hard but in the end you will make yourself rich instead of somebody else. It’s pretty much inconceivable when you live in Europe, isn’t it? But here it’s what people do. Starting a business is like writing a book. It’s one page at a time. I have written a lot that way, in one-hour increments. One page a day, and within a year, you have a novel. Harness your talents: (bilingual, living in Paris, good writer, knows about the internet, makes connections easily, generous, sense of humor, curiosity…) and think of an idea. Think, think, and think,
Then jump.
You can develop it after work (instead of blogging? Though I’d miss reading you.)
That’s what I will do, with my sis, when I have given myself the four months I need to finish the project I’m on. We have a pretty darn good idea too.
If it can be done in the US I’m sure it can be done from anywhere in the world.
If there is one thing this country is good at is dreaming big. What I deplore the most about France is the “c’est impossible” mentality. There would be no shortage of that kind of advice I’m sure.
So don’t listen to them (in fact don’t tell them anything.) Talk to me instead.
Voila. That was my grain of salt.
You know, i've said for years that you'll never ever get rich (if that's your motivation) if you're working for someone else.
You're right too - there are seemingly so many obstacles (especially in France)to get over/around for people wanting to start up.
The french "can't do" mentality is one of them.
You know what ?
I 'd love to write story books (bande dessiné) ..
One of my favorite blogs (if not my favorite) has been the Dilbert blog. Look this up I think you’ll find it interesting. Here is the thingy of it: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/index.html
Or look in archives October 06 under “affirmations”
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I love Dilbert too ... his piece about about affirmations is soooo true: it's something i do all the time (although not the writing them down bit) and have often wondered if i'm not a bit bonkers !
At least now i know that there're at least two bonkers people in the world !!
Anonymous - You've made me go 'toute chose' as the french say !!
;@)
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