Career Goals
I've always thought it was a really stupid question when people asked me about my career goals. What, I graduated from law school, passed the bar, and got a good job at K Street firm - what more do you want out of me? The work that I'm doing right now is pretty much the same work that I'll be doing 30 years from now. My field doesn't change all that much. I might be at a firm or at a corporation, but either way it's essentially the same. So I've never really had any "goals."
But today I was walking around the office and I realized what my career goal is: I want an office with a couch. I work pretty long hours some days, and I can't tell you how many times I've just wanted to grab a quick 20 minute nap on a comfy couch. I don't care how big the office is as long as I can fit a couch in it. Sounds simple, I know, but in law firms, office luxuries like that are usually commensurate with experience or importance. So, I guess that's what I'm striving for. Some day. Some day....
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For most lawyers, having a virtual living room in your office is an ego thing - for guys like you and me (though I'm not a lawyer) - it's all about getting some shut-eye.
I want you to have that couch some day.
I think it would be more fun and more attainable to strive for an under the desk napping cubby, like George had in that one episode of Seinfeld. It'd be like a fort.
I say you go for having a real fort in your office. You can put a couch inside.
Maybe a pup tent.
Office Jacuzzi out of the question? I mean, while we're dreaming. ;)
you could build a fort out of 30 packs!
A bud select fort.
like you take 20 minute naps. please.
You're right, if I had a comfy couch they'd probably be much longer. Get back to work Shake.
I can't shake the image of you hunkered on a big leather couch in front of an ornate fireplace in your office like in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
Hell, even working with someone who would give me access to their office couch would suffice.
i have part of a couch in my office. i inherited this strange couch that breaks up into pieces from a former co-worker, but i couldn't fit them all in my office, so two went to another office. it's basically an office loveseat. it's pretty awesome.
...and not one person suggested you then have sex on it.
Because sex on the desk is a better fantasy.
My career ambition is to be so important to the company and unafraid of being fired that I can keep a bottle of scotch in my office. Ideally it would be in a big, prestigious armoire but any desk drawer would do. And when young, unimportant employees visited me in my office I would take out the bottle and pour us a drink, just to show how important and cool I am.
My career goal is to marry someone rich so I don't have to work. Junior League and happy hours at Noon - here I come!