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The Spiral

May 29, 2021 3 Comments

By Jeffrey Davis

Another Tuesday of back-to-back meetings. Every workday I spend at least eight hours or more discussing content that should take thirty minutes.

My weekend is already committed to completing my expenses and getting caught up on reports. My wife will be upset and my kids will feel neglected. Our house is too extravagant and we have more cars than we need. I do question the sacrifices, but I still arise every morning and immediately jump on conference calls to discuss problems and opportunities.

I sat down with my boss for an annual review last week. I received a rating of average.

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  1. Kevin says

    May 29, 2021 at 7:41 am

    A fine description of the rat race.

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  2. Archibald Hobbs says

    May 29, 2021 at 10:12 pm

    Nice piece as we head into annual-review season.

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  3. Casey says

    June 1, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    This was our life until recently. All too real, unfortunately.

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