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I have had this recurring thought recently about how much careers have changed in the last twenty or thirty years. I believe there used to be a time when people felt ownership in their job... where good performance was as much about pride and personal satisfaction in a job well done as it was about doing the right thing for your employer and your career. These days, it's all about who can screw who to keep their job one day longer and maybe make a little extra coin. It's about money and greed. It's about skipping from job to job like a flat stone across a placid pond in an exhausting attempt to keep up with the Joneses. Where did that simpler time go? The one where people stayed at a job and build a career that was stable and secure... lasting. The type of career where effort is put into looking ahead toward retirement and not ahead toward the axe with a hot off the presses updated resume burning a hole in your back pocket. I love what I do for a living. I really enjoy my job... just not my work environment. I don't like looking people in the eye and getting the feeling I can't trust them. I don't like knowing that your job security is not based on hard work and personal merit. I don't like being a number on some HR roster without a face or value. This is the way of Corporate America. This is what it has become... what it has evolved to be. The people out there that we see every day... people like you and people like me... we made it this. Well, maybe not you specifically and definitely not me specifically, but you get the idea. I hate this. This is why I mostly enjoy the simple things in life.