textbyMurrayHealy

Want to change the world but the world won't listen? or just want to earn a living and have a life? Who wants a proper job anyways?

You're young and frighteningly talented. You've spent years learning and training. and you're hungry to unleash your powers on the world and change it forever. And what happens? you need to live, so you look for a job. And then you look a bit harder. And when finally you get one, you're underpaid, undervalued, underestimated and overworked to the point where you don't have any energy left to pursue your passions. You water down your ideas -if you're allowed to have any ideas at all, that is- so as not to scare the boss. When they work, someone higer up the ladder takes the credit -and most of the profit. And then your short-term contract (because it's all short-term contracts these days) isn't renewed and you're out on your ear.

text by Murray Healy.

page. 136. THE FACE magazine. may 2000. volume 3. number 40.