Today

At work today, one of our one-&-a-half-month-old new hires was asked to hand in his resignation with immediate effect. He's been having a difficult time fitting with the office people and despite trying really hard, it hasn't worked out. Guess its one of these things where the harder you try, the harder it becomes.

The episode served as a reminder of the cold corporate world that I live in at the moment, and its got me thinking a little as to why I ever got started in it in the first place. Was it the money? Or the safe-bet-career-path? There's little doubt that I'm less clear on that than I was before my entry into the rat race, and it scares me how quickly I've forgotten, and how I've let go of those original ideals where living free and doing what I loved reigned over all other practicalities.

What have I become...?

And then I remember that the plan is still to gather some experience as a corporate rat before joining the band of inspired people and starting a business with a real cause. Like getting Singapore to recycle office paper.

My soul's at the pawn shop a few more years... don't nobody buy it.