Ready Or Not

Successfully completed Week One of this season's Being-A-Grown-Up-At-A-Big-Corporate-Law-Firm. This week I:

- Had a free Starbucks Tall Non-fat No-Foam Vanilla Latte
- Ice-skated in Rock Center for the first time ever
- Attended a private company party complete with open bar, numerologists and a roast
- Got a Blackberry (one of 6.2 million, according to Ja) and a firm-issue tote bag
- Pulled my first 14-hour day at the office -- one of many to follow, one can only hope ;)

As, on the 13th hour, I was printing out a thousand pages of documents we can't recycle, I thought of the article about our generation -- that we are an over-educated group of youngsters that take on jobs that "enable" us to work senselessly long hours at the office. We are also, according to this article, a generation of searchers who continuously skip to new projects and take on various eccentric hobbies until we are suddenly 40 and still haven't decided on what we want to be when we grow up.

A little voice says: the easy decision was to do this corporate job -- the challenge would have been to decide what you really wanted and do it, not be afraid of the difficulty in pursuing it, and be the person you really want to be at every moment. But that's hard.

Balance balance balance balance.... a concept continuously redefined depending on the length of the increment in consideration.