I've been waiting all week to be here again. Now that I'm not at a regular job job, a place where I was forced by circumstance to work on things that sometimes produced results of various natures (but mostly things I found frustratingly pointless, now that I'm not there anymore, I realize how much I miss the collaboration.
For a long time I considered myself creative, but now I see that my inventiveness only goes so far and then it requires some sort of context.
And isn't that like life in general? What a facile insight, I know. But somehow it's taken me this many years and almost as many employers to come to this realization. I wish I could say something poetic about it but mostly I'm thinking now about all the "strategic plans" and "top down decisions" and "total quality management" forums I'm so relieved to miss. But at what expense? Is it ever thus -- one extreme or the other? You are either on that team or you're on your own.
So, now I find myself at this juncture, this crossroads, some might even say an intersection (and you know who you are), missing a certain aspect of that tired old road. The metaphors are abundant: I'm all fired up ready to go on a new excursion, so thanks for taking the first steps with me on this road of a thousand miles ahead of us.
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