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so my company likes to have these meetings every so often.

basically, they load you up with "strategy" and tell you about "opportunities" and how things should be a "challenge"...

they use these words because they know what kind of people they have hired... the kind that don't mind killing themselves for a few straight years because everyone they hired comes in with gigatic egos and they are used to getting things done and winning and by tapping into that portion of their brains they can get them to do anything...

pretty much.

so I am always weary when it comes to these meetings... always with a grain of salt...

I have this perspective because not only do I have a huge ego and the drive to always win and get things done, but I have the ability to be incredibly lazy. you see, my competitive nature is only so when it is most convenient for me... given the right amount of laziness I will probably just let something gloss over me (that or if I see that I am being manipulated)...

this wasn't the case before (as in when I was a youngin') - now, I'm just a jaded old man in my mid-late-twenties. you know, when you don't have kids, your late twenties really isn't that much different than your thirties... I would assume that it's a little different when you are in your forties, but I wouldn't know...

in any case, back to the brainwashing - it usually works, if only just as a c.y.a. for the management. I see these new little tykes with all these dreams and hopes and expectation of what the company has to offer, and I smile (or do I smirk?)...

give a few months... they won't be so green then, and then they'll see how much fun traveling really is...

because it's oh so much fun.

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the stiffness in my neck has migrate a little to my shoulder now... I'm pretty sure it's just stress or something like.

now why would I be stressed?

you think about that one.

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"That guy Jacob? He left school. He went on to become the leader of some cult in lowa. He tried organizing a mass suicide. Only problem is, he drank the Kool-Aid first and, well, everyone else just kind of changed their minds. Too bad." ~ Barry Manilow, Road Trip