Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
Envied and cursed? Who does that? Everyone knows that it's all timing and luck in this industry and the seniority game. No one asks to be at the bottom of the hiring wave and then bam 9/11. Or bam everyone was treating their home mortgages like a credit card. Or the Middle East. Or oil.
You're correct, of course. I wasn't saying people are scum for being lucky in their timing. You're focusing on the wrong part of the post.
I was simply using an image to say it's much better to be at the front of a hiring wave. It's like life handing you a winning lottery ticket, or finding out that
you actually are the heir of Zamunda and you can have squads of beautiful girls to attend to your bathing needs. Or, for the female version, finding out that you have a fairy godmother, and you're going to the party to meet Clooney in your own, new Lambo Gallardo.
If you have any choice at all, you want to be
there.