Tight Lines
Senior Member
This is why I left corporate and do what I do. I schedule the meetings, I help the companies figure out how to save money and integrate operations, and I don't have to sit in wasted meetings about nonsense listening to someone who hasn't done it. When I'm done I move on to the next pair...I stepped down one notch when I took this job, to hopefully live a little more stress free my last 6 years. I knew the company ran a little kookie, so I just sit in the nutty meetings as everywhere seems to have them these days.
So they announce a training to help the management team with their professional and personal lives.
So I speak with the Operations Director who knows I am just coasting and don’t want to advance in the company. He gets it but the company doesn’t. Everyone should want the next level and more money according to the Development Director.
So I sit in this garbage married 24 years, debt free, stress free and a little chubby with a 38 years work history. I get to listen to a recent college grad, recently divorced, broke kid, living in an apartment tell me how to survive in this world and make good professional and personal decisions.
They thought this was important enough to fly this kid in from corporate?
I woke up one Monday morning at 5:30 in my last corporate gig and looked at my calendar for the week...35 hours of meetings, 2 breakfasts, 2 dinners, and a day trip. As I was looking at my calendar that morning over coffee I said to my wife, I'm done. I'm quitting.
Made the call on the way in to work and called an old colleague in PE and said "when can I start?"
5 months later I was doing what I love...
And I'm with you...I thought I might want to own a lodge, restaurant and fly fishing / hunting operation out west for retirement...but I don't think I could handle the clientele...
I certainly could not handle the tourist crowd like one of my buddies who rents boats in Destin to idiots...