I spent way too many years in the corporate world, trying to fit in. I'm not going to say I wasn't grateful for the money I made, or what I learned. But it wasn't always so easy, because you had to conform. Even now, with the gig that I have, I have to dress a certain way, wear a tie, such a useless piece of clothing. I don't understand the fascination for ties. It seems to me if men have to wear something as useless as a tie, women should have to wear something equally as useless; say, a hat. I've never understood the business culture's desire to force someone to look and act a certain way. Cut your hair, wear our clothes: conform, just another day in the white man's culture, bend yourself into a predisposed process when every bone in your body is screaming, Let's try something different. As much as the business world gives lip service to thinking outside the box, my experience was that it was a rare day indeed when you were aloud to try something different. And the corporate world was never a place where I, at least, could find self-fulfillment. I tried and tried and tried, and finally gave up, realizing for a person like myself, who craves originality, it just wasn't going to happen in an environment populated by people who, for the most part, valued the tried and true and the safe over any form of risk-taking.
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AuthorBoston-based writer/playwright/visual artist.Founding Artistic Director of Alley Cat Theater, traveler, reader. Likes a good red sauce. Archives
February 2018
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