I hate being sick. It gets me even more sick to be sick. I can not stand the running nose and the look of Rudolf the reindeer settling in. And you just can't help it no matter what. To think that in 48 hours I will be lying on the beach somewhere and now here I am eyes burning between cold and hot feelings. It sucks. But it is the general feeling of the day anyway. Me and Teeba even created a "Things that piss me off" group in facebook as therapy to let it all out and at least be able to laugh about it later. We were both in bad moods and both got better while we were laughing about it here but I guess that feeling is gone and I am back to being in a bad mood. And guess what? It is midnight and I am about to start my only case for tomorrow... At least I finally was able to write something decent on my ISR as an excuse for this late start... Oh, and the Iberian dinner, off course. It is snowing again, welcome back New England weather!
I heard what is likely to become one of my top 3 favourite quotes on a podcast on Friday. "Time is the only real democratic asset. We are all awarded the same time, it is what we do with it that distinguishes us". Now, I recognise that most of us need to work with survive and that is not democratic throughout. But on an equal opportunity basis, this is an interesting way of putting it. For many years I did not understand why MS thought my resume was so interesting. In fact, they chased me during the entire recruitment process, even though I had no idea of moving to London or Finance. I wanted to be a consultant and stay in Lisbon forever. But traditional consultants in Portugal saw nothing in me, and MS did not let me go. When I started screening resumes and hiring people a couple of years later is when I understood why I was different. TIME. I was truly different about what I did with my time. Not necessarily the basics - choice of degree or anything. But really ...
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