this essay is unfinished, last updated aug.10.1999
Right or wrong, most people define their lives by the work that they do. If you believe the mos recent surveys, you are going to spend more time at the office during your life than you will with your family. While this may be a sad commentary on the state of modern American society, it hammers home the point that if you are unhappy at work you are unhappy with your life. It doesn’t take a Mensa-level IQ to figure out that you need to take as active of a role in your company as you do in your personal life.
- why stake a claim?
- fun
- meaning
- $$$
- how to stake a claim
- attitude
- listening
- doing
- claim-jumpers!
- no one has a right to your claim
- there is enough to go around