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I disagree - You ARE America's Next Top Model!!!
Okay, here come the nightmares of you coming at me with a samurai sword... big and hard and shiny... Oooops 
I know of many folks (work for them) who love their jobs -- gain all sorts of value from their jobs. Which is a good thing as the measure is the amount of money they make, not the amount of time they spend doing anything else at all.
I also personally know a few people who love their jobs -- artist, journalist, therapist, dancer. I used to know a ski instructor who moved around the world to follow the snow. Yah, he loved his job.
A pox on all of them
My experience is if you hate what you're doing at one level in an organization it'll be worse the higher you go. Nothing worse than being good enough at what you do (and hate to do) that you climb the fucking ladder...
Aiiiieeeyah, Samurai Joe!
i know people who have their dream jobs, or at least jobs that they don't mind. omg, hugs!! I too want to write! we should start up a virtual writing group together, that way we'd be forced to write and submit something to one another each week!
Is there more to life than one's career? Well sure, there's love, family, friends, all that jazz. But in order to LIVE, you need money, and to get money, you need to WORK. And working constitutes 5 days out of 7 each week, 8 hours a day, that's a lot of time to be spending at something you don't like.
Congrats on the five year run! Good for you! I don't think i've ever stayed at a job that long.... damn, what does that say about me, i wonder.
I envy people who are following their dreams too. Sometimes I feel like I'm not that kind of person, don't have the guts to just do it. It would be nice to just find a job that I would enjoy doing, though, u know? Is that too much to ask? I'll have to blog about my work mis-adventures again. I haven't done it in a long while and tried to not be bitter about this new job the way I was with my old job, but sometimes you just can't help it!!! Congrats again on the duckie award!
Oh, and I forgot to add that the name you gave the duck award left me LMAOROTFL!!!! Nice one.
Might be a matter of identifying your priorities. If you want to write, then identify yourself as a writer. All else follows: the day job becomes a paycheck, and the writing becomes your real work.
See! I do to read this....
Have to admit I wanna be in the Kimono too! Especially if Y2 will help dress me. Nice little feature blog there Joe. Enjoyed it muchly. You know we both share the same thoughts about writing? Of course I want to retire to Venice to do mine...where will YOU write?
It's hot here on the Island today, and of course the usual confusion is swirling around. I understand you have snow.....?
I should have gotten the kimono when my friend Kazuto got married. I think it would be tough to be an HR person for this reason that it would be difficult to make people love their job. With all the regulations and PCness of things, you're not allowed to throw a "Christmas" party for your staff, or get inibriated, there are always those spies with cameras watching your every move and chit-chat tends to be reserved to work, exactly that thing you're trying to blow steam off for. Yeah, I don't know many people who do. Most of us are drones, but we make something positive of it.
So after five years of service, your company gave you the bird?
Not too many young people opt for traditional style weddings anymore- back in the 70s and 80s, people usually had a traditional ceremony and then changed into formal western wedding clothes for the reception- now, people like to just do the western thing.
However, the photos are great! I'm probably going to a wedding this summer in Japan, but I think it would be funnier to dress up like my friend (the bride) and imitate her 
Hey James !!
Congrats on the Five year sufferance award.
where did you go??? Need an icy blog fix, please!
You look so hot in that kimono! Arrrggggghhhh (Homer Simpson slobbering noise.)
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