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May 11, 2005
Fucking annoying question
Is Peter is gay?
Let's put that one aside for now. I'd like to answer one of those questions often asked of me: Why did you quit your previous job?
I quit my previous job to look for another job.
I'll probably need to elaborate here, so let's start with ethics.
I'm a good corporate citizen. Don't ask me why -- it's largely irrational, and I can't quite explain to anyone why precisely I book cheap hotels, take red-eye flights, and work sixty hour weeks. Nonetheless, I do just that. In part, I think it's ethically derelict to spend money that I personally would not otherwise spend simply because the company's paying the bill. My needs are simple, and on a business trip, they stay equally simple.
Which is not to say that I'm afraid to spend the company's money.
So, ethics.
It happens that I also would consider it ethically derelict for me to spend my time searching for a job while employed elsewhere, as many (if not all) job searching activities take place during regularly scheduled business hours.
So I quit my job, and started looking for a new one.
It's probably important to note that while I may consider it to be ethically derelict of myself, it's unlikely that I see it as being so of the vast majority of people.
Ethics are, in my opinion, a luxury afforded by those with the means. If I didn't have the fiduciary means of supporting myself out of work, I'd have looked for a new job prior to my resignation. As it happens, I have the means to afford the luxury of keeping to my own ethical code.
So, I suppose a better question would be: Why were you looking for a new job?
I'm not going to answer that now.
But I will tell you that Peter is, indeed, gay. Of course he is.
Posted by j at May 11, 2005 02:33 PM