Monday, February 5, 2007
Sancho
I really don't like the idea of having a boss at all. At every part-time job I've had I've always felt like my boss is either A)not as smart as me or B)really doesn't enjoy their job at all and just does it to get by. To me, being an adult and working in a cubicle or meeting quotas and just doing mindless work to pass the time would just be stupid. I already go to school and enjoy classes and just go mindless through other ones that I don't enjoy but need to graduate and what not. Why would I want to spend a part of my life voluntarily being mindless in order for some company I don't care about to become more efficient. Really when someone commits themselves to a situation like this its like they are living in someone else's dream and not their own. After all, whoever it is that's calling the shots in the company is the one making the blueprints and delegating the orders and then the people on the way down are just doing what they are told to make some buck. I just don't want to spend my life being a servant to other people and living in their dream. I'd much rather play out my own dream. Don Quixote plays out his own dream, just as people that start up their own businesses do. But, these people also need people to serve them like Sancho or entry to senior level employees. In the film Office Space, the main characters absorb their minds in a dull job that is essential the company, but completely meaningless to their lives and just stay around everyday for the money and a hope of promotion. This is much like Sancho sticks around to serve Don Quixote in hope of one day getting an island. I mean I know sometimes its necessary to impress and prove your worthiness to other people to accomplish dreams, but I just don't understand how some of the 45 year old employees at Taco Bell are satisfied.
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That's a great observation. I hadn't thought of Sancho in that way. Of course, besides the island, there are lots of other benefits, like travel and on-the-job training. That's one of the things I like about Sancho: his willingness to learn. He has no clue as to what the rules are when he starts out on this adventure, but he certainly learns quickly enough. Sancho starts the job strictly for the money, but it seems to me that he's like somebody who decides to become a personal assistant to a famous person. (I'm thinking about the movie "The Devil Wears Prada".) That sort of person takes a lot of stress and operates under adverse conditions, often responding to unreasonable demands. It can't be purely for the money. There's the element of fame as well as fortune, I think.
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