Ever wonder if you are in the middle of a big cosmic prank?

[pstall]

Five years ago this week I pulled my Jerry Maguire. Ballsy and dumb and best move all at the same time.

Now I feel like I'm back at the crossroads again. I times, I feel like my talent also works against me. Everything I have tried, I have done very well at. But now, there are SO many things I want to do and can't decide what course to take.

I'm still working on screen plays but after 8 hours of solving complicated problems, the LAST thing I want to do is think and write. Perfect for Huddle contributions I know.

I want to get back into coaching. I want to fix the school system. I want to help the homeless more.

I want to build websites and consult small biz's on how to make money and families how to invest and get the best deals.

And yet at work it seems I'm being punished for almost knowing too much. Most of my ideas they run with and do great. Some they keep for themselves but the ones that benefit the most they don't take and we pay the price.

It's like being in a twilight zone where you look around and wonder where the camera is because no way this much lunacy is going on.

The ironic part is I get positive feedback and vibes from people all the time. Pstall you would be great at this or should do that and yet it seems all the wrong people see what I'm good at and the people that really need to see that can't be found.

Maybe I need that solo roadtrip out West and find that extra dose of inspiration.

Or at least a good old school arcade. :smash:

Ok I feel marginally better.

[neverlosethefeeling]

Sometimes I feel like Earth is just a reality show for aliens.

[pstall]

Don't get me wrong. I'm grateful to be working and for where I'm working. I just get baffled at the things the "powers that be" come up with and think are going to work and others around me nod their heads and I'm going crazy like guys do you see what you are agreeing too? Am I the only one here with any logic?

[hepcat]

If earth is a reality show for aliens, why does POOP exist?

[Skew]

Five years ago this week I pulled my Jerry Maguire. Ballsy and dumb and best move all at the same time.

Now I feel like I'm back at the crossroads again. I times, I feel like my talent also works against me. Everything I have tried, I have done very well at. But now, there are SO many things I want to do and can't decide what course to take.

I'm still working on screen plays but after 8 hours of solving complicated problems, the LAST thing I want to do is think and write. Perfect for Huddle contributions I know.

I want to get back into coaching. I want to fix the school system. I want to help the homeless more.

I want to build websites and consult small biz's on how to make money and families how to invest and get the best deals.

And yet at work it seems I'm being punished for almost knowing too much. Most of my ideas they run with and do great. Some they keep for themselves but the ones that benefit the most they don't take and we pay the price.

It's like being in a twilight zone where you look around and wonder where the camera is because no way this much lunacy is going on.

The ironic part is I get positive feedback and vibes from people all the time. Pstall you would be great at this or should do that and yet it seems all the wrong people see what I'm good at and the people that really need to see that can't be found.

Maybe I need that solo roadtrip out West and find that extra dose of inspiration.

Or at least a good old school arcade. :smash:

Ok I feel marginally better.

You had me at hello.

[PhillyB]

anytime i feel that way about i job it quit it and go do something dangerous. not worth my soul

[Delhommey]

There is no meaning which is exactly the point.

[c0r]

if earth is a reality show for aliens, why does poop exist?

poop?

[Kevin Greene]

Five years ago this week I pulled my Jerry Maguire. Ballsy and dumb and best move all at the same time.

Now I feel like I'm back at the crossroads again. I times, I feel like my talent also works against me. Everything I have tried, I have done very well at. But now, there are SO many things I want to do and can't decide what course to take.

I'm still working on screen plays but after 8 hours of solving complicated problems, the LAST thing I want to do is think and write. Perfect for Huddle contributions I know.

I want to get back into coaching. I want to fix the school system. I want to help the homeless more.

I want to build websites and consult small biz's on how to make money and families how to invest and get the best deals.

And yet at work it seems I'm being punished for almost knowing too much. Most of my ideas they run with and do great. Some they keep for themselves but the ones that benefit the most they don't take and we pay the price.

It's like being in a twilight zone where you look around and wonder where the camera is because no way this much lunacy is going on.

The ironic part is I get positive feedback and vibes from people all the time. Pstall you would be great at this or should do that and yet it seems all the wrong people see what I'm good at and the people that really need to see that can't be found.

Maybe I need that solo roadtrip out West and find that extra dose of inspiration.

Or at least a good old school arcade. :smash:

Ok I feel marginally better.

Mostly in corporations only idiots get promoted out of their job positions because there's no way in hell they can do their job. Make 'em someone else's problem.

[charlotte49er]

Mostly in corporations only idiots get promoted out of their job positions because there's no way in hell they can do their job. Make 'em someone else's problem.

It's called the "Peter Principal".

It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. This principle can be modeled and has theoretical validity. "Peter's Corollary" states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".

Or I like to think of "Peter's Corollary"; Work is accomplished by an employee who is competent to carry out his duties, but is not promoted by an incompetent manager.

pstall, I feel for you. I have a similar problem in that, I want to go in so many directions, I have a hard time spending more than a few months following one of them.

[Carolina Husker]

To me, quitting a job to feed the homeless and write a screenplay sounds somewhat risky.

[pstall]

I did the Jerry Maguire thing ONCE. Not again.

[Matt Foley]

When we're born, what's the most important thing in the world? Boobs, right?

Too often we men get distracted from that. I wrote this little song to keep our eyes on the prize....

Before we get pubes

It's all about boobs

So get out the lubes

And get back to boobs

Chorus (kinda like the woo woo in Sympathy for the Devil)

Boobs boobs....boobs boobs...boobs boobs

[Zcustom]

Funny you mention this, cuz I feel like the cosmos are fukking with me and laughing their asses off right now.

I had a multi-part plan in place for this year and every single part of that plan has blown up in my face and it is stressing me the hell out.

Sounds like you're having a minor crisis there Val, just don't go buying convertible sports cars or anything