make 999 decisions out of a thousand with my purpose in mind.

In a recent job interview I was asked: Where do you see yourself in five years?

I know it’s a stock HR School question. The right answer is likely posted on the internet somewhere. It is obviously meant to illicit a response that tells the interviewer more about you than you would have indended.

How ambitious are you? Are you here for the short term or the long?

Where does jack see himself in five years?

fit, debt free and a father.

You can wright it down.

I have made a big decision. A big move. I got a new job.

Steadily the demands of my job have grown ever-more all-encompassing. The hours I work in a day have stretched out to the point where an eight-hour day seems like a half-day. The number of days I put in during a week have pushed into my time with family and robbed me of the things that make life more than drudgery. When I am at work the chaos and frantic pace leaves me feeling like I’m trying to bail out a leaking life-boat with a holed bucket.

Some time ago my company decided there was too much ‘fat’ in the operations department and cut staff and resources. My boss told me that in a management meeting one of the big-management guys had described his plan to ‘cut the B&C players and dump their work on the A-players.’

I suppose I should be pleased they consider me an ‘A-player’ but the fact is the way things have gone I had to wonder ‘what’s in it for me?’ – especially since wages have been stagnant for the last several years and the B&C players who rode out the attempts by the company to make them quit walked out with severance packages.

So, about two-weeks ago when I was called in early on a Monday after just finishing a week with twenty-hours of overtime I decided to take a look around and see if there was somewhere else that might hire ol’jack.

I had a great meeting with another company and they called me in for a second interview at which they offered me a job. Straight days, twenty-five percent increase in pay. Their office is clean, calm. They are well-organized. They were interested in my ideas and liked what I had to say about dealing with people, planning and communication.

So – how about that?

turn off my computer and go to bed now!

The next will be, ‘rise at *:30 AM. ‘early enough considering I work 2nd shift.