So I’m sitting here reading the NYTimes when an interesting article catches my eye. “A Life Between Jobs” they called it. Okay, that’s interesting. ‘Cuz my life is constantly between jobs… Why work all the time when there are so many FUN things to do out there? Right?

As I delve into this piece, I start getting a deeper and deeper pit in my stomach. What a stupid concept, really. They interview this kid who’s been slaving away without a vacation for over three years. He decides he’s not going to take a vacation, but rather, spend the three weeks he’s got between that and a new job to go traveling around America.

Three weeks! Are you serious?

And then the article goes on:

“Gaps in the résumé are still a red flag,” said Carol R. Anderson, director of career development and placement at Milano the New School for Management and Urban Policy. But for those who are not following rigid career paths, “the cross-cultural competency that is best gained from living in a different country,” for instance, can be a résumé builder, she said.

Good grief. Who are these people? We’ve got to come up with names for them. Babylon Builders? Management Slave-makers?

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