Property News · March 9, 2016

The joy of quitting your job | Arwa Mahdawi


It’s hard to shake the addiction to a monthly salary. But take the advice of a master quitter – jacking it in before you’re too successful might be the best thing you ever doI am a very important, very busy person. Sometimes I wake up and don’t even have time for breakfast because I have just got so much on. I normally check my email on the subway so I can hit the ground running when I reach my Manhattan office; but, you know, it’s impossible to ever really catch up because I get so many emails. I don’t exactly have a corner office, but one could say that I sit in a corner of the office. From this corner, I spend my day busily reaching out and circling back and adding people to my professional network on LinkedIn. Occasionally, my days contain so much circling back that I wonder whether I have turned into a squiggle.Of course, I’m being facetious. I would have to harbour delusions of grandeur to think of my meaningless job in advertising in those terms. Not that those delusions would be a bad thing. In fact, if you want to get ahead in much of the corporate world, they’re essential. If you’re going to spend your life working crazy hours, you need to feel that you’re doing something important, that you’re someone important. Which is why corporations, particularly American ones, bestow you with titles such as president, vice-president and chief this-and-that. It’s also why you learn to speak a special language that dresses up banal actions in game-changing, out-of-the-box verbiage. And it’s why everyone is always so “busy”, even though they’re often just busy doing busy work. Finally, it’s why a certain strata of people feel justified in taking home disproportionately large salaries for jobs that contribute very little to society. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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