Saturday, December 25, 2010

365 professions@ 365 days


Lately, I have been toying with the idea of experimenting with different professions. I am contemplating 365 professions @ 365 days.

Well, you may ask, ‘What good will it serve me?”

Let me take the liberty of borrowing professional jargon to explain my four-pronged strategy ( or rather clover leaf strategy).

Firstly, all the life management gurus preaching about embracing the diversity and vibrancy of life have deeply impressed my vulnerable mind. Life is a journey. And as an individual I need to be focused on innovation and scaling new heights. I got to constantly reinvent myself and re-engineer the future. So what better way!

Secondly, I suffer from a major attention deficit syndrome and I need the world to stand up and pay attention to my pearly words of wisdom. Since there is no mention of anyone having accomplished such a mean feat even in the Guinness Book of World Records, it provides me with an unparalleled opportunity to carve my very own niche. I can create a “differentiated” me.

Thirdly, I am on the path of self discovery. I plan to apply the law of elimination to discover my true yearnings. I got to discover which life drugs work for my particular mental condition.

Fourth, I am simply tired of being just a manager ( my ex-boss explained the concept to me). I wish to be a leader but a leader who is one amongst millions. I am the new age leader and my choices have to be off-beat, rakish and counter-culture.

I started compiling the list of 365 professions and am already running out of ideas. Of course that’s because this is not my job. I am the leader. I am now thinking of hiring research and data executives for this mundane task.

From Herman Hesse - who sought!!! (plagiarism on my part )

"One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time."

"Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure."

"I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me."

"I live in my dreams. Other people live in dreams too . . . just not their own."


"What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find."

"The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire"

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

"Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak..surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.