It used to be that when you hit 40 and lost all or most of your hair, you would buy a Porsche convertible. Driving well above the speed limit with your two strands of hair blowing in the wind was the trusted antidote to your mid-life crisis.
Well times have changed haven't they? For one there is an accelerated version of everything on the market. So you don't want to spend 2 years stuck in a horses-arse neighborhood of Philadelphia-then do a 10 month MBA program with a switch to Singapore. You don't want to drink 10 jugs of beer to get drunk-then do 3 shot glasses. You don't want to wait 20 dates to get to 2nd and 3rd base with snooty women in London-move to Asia and take-up a job in banking, securitizing ass-ets. You get the point...
So there's also an accelerated mid-life crisis aka quarter-life crisis on the market. It occurs when
you've spent more time with excel and powerpoint than with you family. Except you can neither afford to buy a Porsche on your salary nor do you wish to lose your two remaining strands of hair by driving too fast.
So what do you do? You start writing a shitty blog...
Well times have changed haven't they? For one there is an accelerated version of everything on the market. So you don't want to spend 2 years stuck in a horses-arse neighborhood of Philadelphia-then do a 10 month MBA program with a switch to Singapore. You don't want to drink 10 jugs of beer to get drunk-then do 3 shot glasses. You don't want to wait 20 dates to get to 2nd and 3rd base with snooty women in London-move to Asia and take-up a job in banking, securitizing ass-ets. You get the point...
So there's also an accelerated mid-life crisis aka quarter-life crisis on the market. It occurs when
you've spent more time with excel and powerpoint than with you family. Except you can neither afford to buy a Porsche on your salary nor do you wish to lose your two remaining strands of hair by driving too fast.
So what do you do? You start writing a shitty blog...
3 comments:
You can also stand by the port. Once in a while, a submarine emerges causing turbulence in Singaporean waters and surfs the chemicals on shore.
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Are Gee, if you wanted to comment on the 2 reamining strands of hair on my head you could have sent an e-mail rather than set up this shitty blog and put it in public :-D
Mayte,
We all empathise with you...but you're way ahead on the zee curve of quarter-life crisisistas coz you actually publish something, albeit 'shitty' and other qlcs leave behind anonymous comments and commiserations. So, don't despair, get a Wii and a HD telly...at least you can simulate the Porsche ride at a fraction of the cost and minus injury to those forlorn forelocks!
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