That sinking feeling is your career

drown drone2Your career is in park.  You know the corporate rules of engagement so you may nail a few more promotions based on self promotion, key colleagues blowing up, and other colleagues blowing out.

Soon your career momentum will run out.  You can see that day now.  In the near future you will be in a prep meeting for some useless business review.  You will float above the corporate scrum as a ball of pure professional indifference.  The last of your effort, interest, and social capital will run out.  As you transcend the corporate hullaballoo you look down at your team scrambling to reverse engineer goals with bogus success metrics one last time.  At the apex of your professional life you know this is as good as it’s going to get. 

During that brief window where professional drive and personal over commitment are in balance you will be nauseous and disoriented.

Plan, protect, and preserve what you have.  The pull of age, ego, and living beyond your means is pulling you down.

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