To That Flaccid Penis, Thank You and Goodbye

Learn, Don’t Linger

Once upon a time, I was like you. As much as the idea of working for a boss didn’t thrill me, I threw away my entrepreneurial garb for a few years and tried my hand at a corporate career.

I like to think that on my first day, I decided it wasn’t for me, but it was more like after my first month. I sat in my car three hours before the sun came up, readying myself for the days crisis, weeping about my latest life choice: committing my soul and ideas to a creatively stifling purgatory.

I made the decision to return to what I wanted, my own business. But, sadly, I had already given in too much to the life style; I had debts, devices, payments and so on. I needed to be a slave, as much as they needed me to be at work three hours early.

I agreed to myself that I’d stay for a year, absorb every bit of knowledge that I could and establish a name for myself within the Public Relations and Media industry, then apply what I learnt in my next business one day.

I did.

My time in agency wasn’t all bad, I met a person that quickly became my mentor and teacher. Yes, she was at times harsh and at times the perfect human representation of a flaccid penis, but at other times, when looking back, she bestowed upon me a way of thinking and questioning that helped me define a business ethic when it comes to communications and work that I have yet to find a better replacement.

I realised this fact, and acknowledge that as much as we’d both butted heads on numerous occasions, I’m thankful, I respect her for what she did for me while I was working under her.

We’ve all got or had a flaccid penis in our lives.

The point though is to learn from these interesting experiences as much as we can and move on as quickly as possible.

Learn, but don’t linger.

Steve Jobs said it better maybe: “Keep Looking, don’t settle”