From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 06:51:43 MDT
Despite Harvey's optimism, there's other ways to look at turning 30. I
read long ago that in your 20's you were tolerated, in your 30's you are
forced into obedience, thus ensuring that at 40 you are now in a
position to command others along the same toleration/obedience route. I
never learned the obedience part, which explains why I've been
self-employed for the last 7 years.
For example, when I was 30, my manager at the time gave me a short story
to read. It was about a kid who went to play with his friends instead of
mowing the yard as his father had asked him to. Upon the kid's return,
the father made him mow the yard using scissors. The kid was initially
optimistic and thought he could do it in a day and then again go play
with his friends. Of course the job took all summer.
Other than as an example of fascist oppression, or a supreme waste of
time, I never got the point of this story. Which explains why I've been
self-employed for the last 7 years.
-Mike
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