So while I know the world is going to hell in a handbasket, I'm experiencing a bit of cognitive dissonance in my personal experience. They say the economy is faltering on the brink of a double dip recession, but I'm getting unsolicited contacts from recruiters, which hasn't happened since the wheels came off the internet bubble. Work is being nice. granting stock (paltry amounts) to the domestic rank and file all of a sudden, as if there's something less effective about shipping production to India, China, and what not.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
The Problem with Pessimism
It occurs to me that the problem with sustaining a properly pessimistic outlook is that things really are getting better, well for me personally, anyway. And it's not like I'm winning the lottery or experiencing any great professional successes, but I do feel surrounded by love, and a guy can get by on that. And a paycheck.
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You're not doing it right. Your supposed to take all these good things as a sign that something is about to go terribly wrong, like Whole Foods won't have any wild salmon tomorrow and THEN WHAT?
ReplyDeleteIt's a sign that backup plans abound. For instance, My employer could let me go, but that I could get a better job. Whole Paycheck could be out of Salmon, but Top Foods has whole wild sockeye at $5.99 a pound. And tomorrow doesn't even matter as I will be in LA, doing something fabulous. (I have no idea what or whether I like it, but I have assurances it will be fabulous.)
ReplyDeleteOur big corpses are discovering that happy employees in the US really are more productive than inexpensive opportunists in South Asia, and that's good for us, especially considering we don't work nearly as hard.
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