Hello all,
This is an in depth article written about one of my favorite movies of all time called, "Office Space." One might think that it's just a comedy on the surface, but if you took the time to watch it more than once you'd pick up on a lot of the stuff they touch on in this article.
Throughout my life I've had four different 2-3 years jobs where I was paid quite well. But, always ended up quitting or intentionally getting fired so I could collect my unemployment benefits, use my savings, live the dream, and as Peter Gibbons said, "Just do nothing," whenever I felt like it.
I figured I would post this first because I have years worth of stories, letters, little fits of rage on social issues, politics, current events, etc, that I wrote often times while at work trying to do as little as possible grinning and bearing it making it through one meaningless day at the workplace onto the next. I plan to fill this blog with all of those as well as new content I'll be working on each day.
Some might say, "Don't you feel bad you never gave 100%?" The truth is my 50% to 75% on most days was better than most workers 100%. I often worked in a sales environment that is littered pea brains, spoon feeds, and irresponsible idiots that can't even remember to call people back at an allotted time or give them the information they ask for in an email.
As long as I felt like I was giving my masters that were slave driving me 50-60 hours a week a nice return on their investment in me I felt great showing up late, taking two hour lunches, disappearing to bang my girlfriend who I put up at hotel nearby, or often leaving early.
That's the beauty about the sales industry.
As long as you are one of the top producers, you can usually do whatever you want to do.
As long as you have a proven track record of sales, you can look your manager, general manager, or owner in the eye and tell him to, "Blow you."
The next company that thinks you can reproduce your sales results will always hire you.
After working for four of them I decided I had enough, though.
My first venture since then was my own start up company called Internet Automotive which produced substandard results that I ultimately reduced to a consultation company that now helps auto dealers with social media and internet advertising.
My second venture has been my dive into playing poker for a living and thus far it's yielded great results with only a $3,000.00 start up cost. If you're interested in reading more about that venture you can search around in the Poker Goals+Challenges forum as well as the Marketplace Live Staking forum.
I can't thank you fine assortment of people here at 2+2 Forums, Pocket Fives, Run It Once, Poker Vip, or wherever you're finding this correspondence for finding interest in my writing and cheering me on.
When I first signed up to online forums to discuss music, movies, current events, politics, religion, social issues, etc my handle was always Justin Vitale.
I never intended to use PeterGibbons, Heistmaster, Mr.Intensity, L.G. Blazo, InternetGod, Lotgrinder, or any other handle to mask my identity.
But, when you find out how serious people take the internet and how upset they get reading anything that causes them to think or goes against the way they chose to live their life it can be a scary thing.
I've decided that I am going to go 100% forward with this writing + poker venture, though and I'll be moving forward as Justin Vitale on Facebook, Lotgrinder on Twitter, and I'll be housing all my writing+blogging in this thread from here on out.
So, without any further ado, the article about a movie that taught me it's ok to hate your job (most people do no matter what they say), and never too late to try to find a way to do something that makes you happy.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/ite...the-mainstream
