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"Bless me Bill for I have Sinned"

I've just been asked by the Head of our Marketing department to join them.

Better job, much more in line with the sort of things I enjoy, better prospects, better money...and I feel like Satan's emissary on earth. Bah...

Deep down I'm sure Light meant the title to read

" Please still be my bud Goatboy... I'LL STEAL PENS "

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Heheheheheheheheheheheh. No-ones gone to two barrels before...

Anyhoo, it's a definite moral dilemma for me. I don't want to compromise my principles (i had enough of that in my legal career). And I know I'm not going to change anything from the inside. But neither do I want to be stuck in the current job; well paid but dead end and, ultimately, unrewarding.

And alas, I don't hate this lifestyle. I don't exactly love the job, but it gives me security and it gives Mrs Light and myself more cash. Mercenary? Hell yes. But I want as good a future as possible for the two of us, and part of that involves sucking on Satans wang for a while.

Bah...

Light wrote:
> I'm just braver than you cos I'll dance with the devil
> whilst doing it...
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Yep.
It's a lot braver to take a promotion into an area that your favourite comedidian screamed himself hoarse against.
It's a heck of a lot braver to tell yourself "Hey, I can change it from the inside" than it is to say "Y'know, I've been lying to myself for years! I hate this lifestyle and the meager rewards aren't worth the stain on my soul! I quit!"

Uh-huh.

just joshing, I'm like, envious and stuff

You used to be about the music maaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

Heh. Nothing I say is gonna convince you otherwise is it?

Trust me, the anger is still there. It's set to simmer instead of boil. And I never said I enjoyed LiT! Just liked the look and feel of it (it was a piece of s**t movie...). And...and...and...


Nah, I give in. I'm still the same me, and I'm still doing the same sorta stuff. I'm just braver than you cos I'll dance with the devil whilst doing it...

I think I've always had an element of "Get a good job, advance socially, do well!" about me. I need to figure out a way to reconcile that with the general all-consuming rage at the world that drives me. And at the moment, I dunno how the hell I can do that. I'm working on it though.

am i convincing anyone at all?

A fiance.
Temp management position that has lead into Marketing.
A loss of male anger and an admission to enjoying Lost in Translation.

*places a wreath gently on the headstone of a former Manland Founder*

Nah, you're just getting old and feeling happy now you've found your niche, discovered your role in life.
And it's good that you're turning into your parents, really it is. We all rage and pee into the wind until we discover the role best suited for us.
And yours is marketing/mid management with a wife and nice car and home with matching garden.
Mine's a drummer that finishes work by 11am and spends his daytime rehearsing, playing video games and downloading heavy metal MP3s he used to have on cassette.

I'm not saying anybody's is any more valid than anybody elses.
Just surprised is all.
Still, more money!

You make me sick

monkey_man wrote:
> Was it Big or Vice Versa where Judge Reinhold hung about in a toy shop
> all day? I think it was the second one. Was The Wonder Kid in it?

Yes. Vice Versa = Judge Reinhold and Fred 'Doc' Savage. Big = Tom Hanks.
Vice Versa was just a rip off of Big John, Little John anyhoo.

Heh. I'm thinking of taking the same approach that "The Yes Men" take.

Anyone seen reviews for that movie? That's what I'm gonna aspire to.