tangomonster
Full time employment: Posting here.
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Jeez, here I've been loving being FIREd, but now I see there is a better way, where you can still enjoy the lack of stress and loafing while continuing to get a paycheck. If only I had seen this book before ER:
Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Executricks, by Stanley Bing, Hardcover
Too bad I wasn't a "power player(s) who have made their jobs into a waking festival of indolence and fun, and gleaned a vast range of executricks they have developed over the years, based around several core concepts:
Why do I always find out about these things too late?
Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Executricks, by Stanley Bing, Hardcover
Too bad I wasn't a "power player(s) who have made their jobs into a waking festival of indolence and fun, and gleaned a vast range of executricks they have developed over the years, based around several core concepts:
- Delegation, or getting other people to do the stuff you don't want to
- Absence, or the ability to get "work" done while not being physically on the scene
- Abuse of status
- Acting visionary when confused
- Intense engagement (used only in crisis)
- The use of the cell phone and BlackBerry to establish a permanent state of simultaneous Omniscience and Not-Presence
- Roping off mealtimes as zones of defensible entitlement
- Travel as an alternative to work
- The art of the nap
- Golf -- the ultimate dodge
- Philanthropy and social activism, a pleasant parallel universe"
Why do I always find out about these things too late?