Downhill

My blog is not about bashing a company I've worked for for 20 years.

My blog is about what it's like to survive the greatest economic crash since the Great Depression.  It's about the pain of that experience ... about the hard-working people who were victims ... about their stories of transformation and recovery ... and about my own desire to recreate myself and my career as I approach the mid-century mark in my life.  I'm certainly not the first to want to do something new and different, and I certainly won't be the last.  Maybe I'll do it, and maybe I won't, but if the only thing I can do is write about  it -- then that's what I'm going to do.

Just because I have felt restrained and restricted in a corporate environment doesn't mean I hate the corporation.  There has never been one day in the past 20+ years that I haven't been grateful for my employment and grateful for the opportunities I have been given.  I was able to raise a child by myself, remain independent, work with (and for) incredible people, challenge myself, and challenge -- some say irritate -- others.

The stories I tell and the opinions I express can be lifted out of context and dropped easily into virtually any other field or any other employer.  Those who read my blog have said:  "this sounds like my world" -- and their world is far removed from my own.

Yesterday's blog entry was a cautionary tale.  After the pain so many have experienced, there was a momentary delight in seeing the powerful drop from positions on high like enemy aircraft shot from the sky.  But karma is real, folks, and the tragedy of this collapse is far from over:  there is more pain to come, and the laws of physics and economic reality operate in tandem:  it all rolls downhill.