An exchange between me and Boots regular Ron Shewchuk on his blog, For Your Approval.
Ron gives some career advice for young communicators, and this item is included:
"Understand
that the first five years of your career will be extremely frustrating,
with low pay, tons of boring work and very little influence."
To which I reply, "And after five years you'll get used to these conditions, and your frustration will abate."
This reminds me of my earliest days trying to reconcile my own ridiculous idealism with the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the corporate world. As an escapist fantasy, I imagined myself as the bestselling author of a revolutionary business book called The Corporate Eunuch, which would do for employee communicators what Germain Greer did for female sexuality. But then I discovered that a book by that name was published in 1973 and I went back to fantasizing about going camping with Patti Smith.
Ron’s fantasy, y’all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Patti_Smith_Copenhagen_1976.jpg
More like this: http://cinematicpassions.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/patti_smith_easter.jpg
And, don’t forget, that was way back in the early 80s. Although I’d still go camping with her today.