Life on Florida’s West Coast

Why I don’t miss the corporate world

I rather enjoyed my old job as the art director for a manufacturing company. I had a lot of freedom. I developed every last process we used in the department and dictated the policies surrounding using our services. I had a lot of artistic control and all in all, we were a very well respected department within the company.

As someone with a little bit of computer savvy under my belt, I was often called in to consult with other departments on choosing and integrating new software to be used in various processes throughout the company. Sometimes that was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the analytical nature of the tasks. I remember one particular project where we spent six months previewing and testing different budgeting software products and I don’t think I could have been any ore bored if I had been tied to a chair and forced to watch back-to back episodes of Deal or No Deal. It was a daily yawn fest for me.

My point is though I had a lot of freedom as to how my particular department was run; I had no control as to how the company wished to use my time. If they said I was needed to sit in on testing financial software, then I needed to show and do my job. There was no way it was worth risking my job just to get out of a task I did not enjoy. And, I think a lot of us who work or have worked in the corporate world will agree that you take the good with the bad in order to stay afloat.

I suppose this is why the dream of working for yourself is so compelling for people. I do intent to teach next ear, but if you were to look deep into my soul, you would see that at the end of the day I really just want to be my own boss.

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