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What Should I Do With My Life?
Bamafan77 writes "FastCompany's website has an interesting article about what it means to be successful that I think builds nicely upon a recent Slashdot discussion. That Slashdot thread was about a study that wanted to find out if there is a link between college rejection and success. This new article asks a more basic question that many people struggle with: what does it mean to be successful and how do I achieve it? This article is an excerpt from a new book by Po Bronson which details the personal lives of several people, many of whom are very talented and superficially successful, who switched gears to try to find that 'thing' they are impassioned about. One interesting excerpt that might particularly hit home to the Slashdot community is Bronson's tidbit about a Rockwell manager who left his job because, though it was mentally challenging, lacked a deeper level of gratification. What is this man doing now? He's a cop in East LA."
...for satisfaction in your life. Instead, settle with what *is*.
Fight middle management for every penny raise on their 30,000 dollar annual salary.
Lay off 500-600 21,000 year jobs. Have the remaining 200 people pick up the work slack.
Hey, that's an extra million for you, since you need another yacht.
Pilfer extra millions when you already have millions in the bank.
Get caught, don't get in any real trouble anyway since you have enough money for quality counsel.
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This post is in NO WAY insightful.
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.