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New Post 2/24/2008 3:41 PM
  woolley
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Business is really boring me to death 
Modified By woolley  on 2/24/2008 3:48:00 PM)

I wonder if the rest of you feel the same as I do about business. I just cannot get fired up about it anymore. What is it really but a way to accomplish very transitory things while attempting to accumulate material wealth. I know, its can be more than that but at my age, 52, I am very jaded about it all. I am currently a Sales Director for a Telecommunications firm. I have been in the Internetworking business since 1983, way before anyone but the military and a few academics even knew what the Arpanet was. Its been a great ride but lately, it bores me to tears. I just cannot fathom why folks get so worked up about making money and being "professional". Corporate groupspeak sets in when a company reaches about 100 people and around 50 million in annual sales. Once it reaches a couple hundred million, it starts to act and feel like every other company that ever existed, its almost uncanny how this happens. I guess I am in a sort of malaise. Hell, I am even bored to death of The Fray which is why I came over here to see if any of you can get me stimulated again.


One fly does it all....
 
New Post 2/24/2008 4:34 PM
  switters
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Hey, woolley. 
Really nice to see you here.

I think I might know how you feel. I'm 40, burned out, almost out of pot, and currently trying to sell as much of my "stuff" as I can, move back up north close to my family, and become an organic farmer. I'd link to an article I wrote but I can't feel my left arm. I'm spending the next 6 to 8 months trying to save/make as much money as possible so that I can be poor like my grandparents and raise goats.

Long story.

Anyways, read Maria Rundipi's articles on the economy here. Pretty excellent. She's running my life because I hang on her every word.

Again, great to see you.

Go, CISCO, go!
 
New Post 2/24/2008 4:50 PM
  topazz
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Dear Woolley Loman 
Modified By topazz   on 2/24/2008 4:50:48 PM)

you need to take a vacation, and get on a good anti-depressant.  Cause guess what, YOU CANNOT LEAVE THE BUSINESS YET.   52 isn't nearly old enough to stop working.  The only way you're going to get through till you're 65 is with good pharmaceuticals. 

 
New Post 2/24/2008 6:58 PM
  Michael Kenney
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Re: Business is really boring me to death 

Good to see you Woolley.

Take a vacation. Go see a Mexican donkey show. Spend more money than you can afford to spend on something utterly retarded. Carry two pockets full of dimes through airport security. Go visit sick kids in a cancer ward. Buy twin hookers at the Mustang Ranch.

Then back to work. It's what we do.

Good to see you.

Schmutz

 
New Post 2/25/2008 4:37 PM
  woolley
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Re: Hey, woolley. 
Hi back at ya and everyone else here. I just realized that I did not let them put the cookies on my PC which is why I could not reply to any of you, I was not logged in. Anyhow, business is truly boring me despite the necessity to make a living. I do need a real vacation, get away from the damn phone, the damn internet and the damn damns. I have been cruising some of your blogs, very cool stuff. I tried making my own blog but lost interest after it ended up looking really stupid. Maybe I should get my daughter to make it look nice, you should see her MySpace pages. BTW, anyone have any opinion on Bryn Mawr? I filled in a recruiting form for my daughter who is a great vball setter out here and damn if the coach did not send me back something almost immediately. All girls schools will be tough on my daughter but it could be a hell of an experience coming from California. Should I pursue this further and see what happens?
One fly does it all....
 
New Post 2/25/2008 7:26 PM
  rundeep
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Re: Hey, woolley. 

Bryn Mawr: the good: academically challenging, pretty nice campus, food is allegedly great, small.  Politics going to trend very liberal. And, of course, Katherine Hepburn's alma mater. A friend of mine is faculty there in the sociology department. Though I won't out his particulars, august may also have some views. It's also a major burb of Philadelphia, so there is a relatively large city nearby, reachable by train, and bus. Lots of other small, private schools relatively close by, so even in the Main Line burbs there's a big college crowd.

The women I know who have attended have loved it. The kind of place where when you graduate you are truly bonded to your class. As for the social life and vibe, I honestly have no clue.

I do know that when my daughter took a field trip there in the 2nd grade she decided she was going there for college because it was big and far away (all of a 40 minute drive from the house). 

 
New Post 2/26/2008 8:06 AM
  The Quiet Man
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Hello woolley 

Take a step back.

You are focusing on the "you" in the workplace, and you should take a step back, just for a moment.

How do you feel about the company?  How do you feel about those above you?  How do you feel about those around you?  How do you feel about those you deal with?  How do you feel about your abilities to do the job? 

Your relationship with your workplace is complex (I'd wager), and not so simplistic as "it's boring."

Then, put it into context.  How "safe" is your job?  Do you know others in far worse or far beter positions elsewhere?

Putting it into context is particularly difficult.  I have a friend who's a sales trainer for an automotive company.  He grumbles about work continuously.  He finds his bosses arrogant.  The President of the company once said to no one in particular - "If you don't like it here leave."  So he did.  Went to a Japanese automotive company.  He loathed it  there, quit, and came back to his former company.  Th president gloated over the return - "Grass isn't always greener" kind of stuff.

Well, it's been a few years now, and he's grumbling again and he's looking elsewhere again.  He knows he won't get paid better elsewhere.  He knows that there are workplaces that he won't be able to tolerate.  Really, the problem is him, and not the workplace.  And he won't be able to fix it until he realizes it.

I don't know if that can relate to your situation at all - but it's amazing how problems can sometimes dissolve when put into perspective.  (I should talk - I'm the first to obsess with a situation, and then a year later can't imagine why my shorts were in such a knot....)

 
New Post 2/26/2008 8:07 AM
  Keifus
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Me too, woolley 

The more my success rides on corporate vapor of marketing and team-building, the unhappier I am.  I also find it tiring and stressful that I need to be a constant source of impressive-sounding scientific ideas (and substandard execution of them too).  A vacation might be nice, a nice long one.

K (and I'm only 35)

 

 
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