The Nomad Tavern is conducting a blogging/new economy thought experiment:
I need your help in a thought experiment that could determine what this blog becomes and how I (and perhaps tom) will support myself...Posted by Simon at July 28, 2004 03:22 AM
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The future is an unknown, a variable, and now I hope to elicit some thoughts from our readership about the future. I’ve left Japan and am in the process of trying to find gainful and enjoyable employment without returning to the drudgery that was so well-captured by the movie Office Space.The process of finding employment is unpleasant at best. It depends, for the most part, on who you know and what those people can do for you, but the process of finding a new job also lends us the opportunity to examine our own individual philosophies and goals. Or it should. Too many people find themselves in a situation of unhappy employment or unscheduled unemployment and panic. They search and search for some job, any job; they search for a company that will hire them, no matter what the position, as long as their pride isn’t damaged by a cut in pay or prestige; the demands of life and society, the looming shadows of ‘successful’ friends and siblings, the expectations of parents and partners all bear down on the job-seeker and push that seeker to find a job that the outside world will approve of. Or they go to grad school. But some job hunters escape the cycle.