Work, work, work, I still need a phoney baloney job

I am working on finding work while trying to keep out of non-growth or dead-end positions. Doing this while trying to transition careers in today's economy is getting a little tough. That plus the job market here in the SF bay area is making the transition tough.

If I had spent less time in my previous industry, I think I would be more tempted to take the easy route and take a spot that I would hate and end up working way too many hours at. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the occasional over-time. After having worked more than seventy hours a week for nearly nine months to finish a project off with over eighty hours a week working grave yard hours (7pm to 10am or later) for the last month and a half, I am weary of an industry that treats over-time as a deadline solution.

Now, I have made the decision to try and shift back to retail carrying my management experience over, hopefully, to management type of positions there. Time will tell how successful this will be. I don't know if this is going to be a new long term path but at this time I am hoping that it will provide a fresh perspective on work for me. I have to remember to keep my opinion on work being just that and not a way of life out of the interviews.

Why is it that some employers want people who tend to the fanatical to work for them? Do these hiring types really think that fanatics make good workers? Come on, how on earth are people supposed to connect with some psycho that lacks rational thought at the work place. Am I really the only one who finds those people unsettling and are nice to those people only in the hopes that when they show up with "guns a blazin", that I am spared? I know that many of the individuals that I associate with, who will remain unnamed to protect any future employment for them, agree that a job is a means to acquire the tools for happiness and not the ends. Why must we all be obsessed with what we get paid for and not just do things to make us happy for the joy of it. I appreciate being a contributing member of society, I also like doing things just for the love of the process (like a blog that noone will read).

Well that seems like a good note to sound off on. Till next time my lack of readers!!