Fruit baskets
May 4th, 2010, 11:06 | 3 comments
I turned down a job offer today. Or rather, the job offer – they don’t come that often to be honest.
Business wise, I have a 4-year glitch in my resumé. During these four years I’ve lived a bohemian life in Prague and Berlin, and I’ve published an international art journal of the less respectable kind.
This job offer meant several things to me:
- A chance to be back in business and patch up that resumé.
- A normal life: Working 9 to 5, maybe buying a car.
- Leaving Berlin and starting up anew in Copenhagen.
- A pretty good salary.
Tempting, right? The normal lifestyle is always tempting for those of us who can’t choose. But now I was under the impression that I could. I even flew to Copenhagen last week to meet them, and I dare say it was up to me after our meeting, which they called “fantastic”.
Fruit baskets. That was one of the salary benefits, along with free broadband and mobile phone subscriptions. But I think the fruit baskets were my wake up call. Did I really want to go back to this, no matter how much I was paid? Office humour, Friday beers, daily commuting to a business district … It was the fruit baskets that made me realize I had done it all before, and that I didn’t want to go back.
So I turned it down.
As I did so, I also realized that my resumé doesn’t matter anymore. Sure, the longer that glitch gets, the higher the eyebrows will be raised among employers. But you know, that would only be a problem for someone who aims at being employed. Which I obviously don’t. Business wise, my resumé has become irrelevant.
And so, I chose my bohemian Berlin life anew.
About time – it had lingered for the last months, like a bad relationship, and the opportunity of actually leaving it made me realize how much I love it. I’m not finished here yet. I have things to create, and stories to tell. Actually turning down a well-paid job adds weight to those tasks – I have showed myself that I take them seriously. Instead of just continuing this lifestyle out of laziness, I have just chosen it actively.
And that feels. So. Great.
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May 2nd, 2010, 8:51 | No comments
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