Are all workplaces the same? In a specific sense - no, of course they aren't. In a general sense - maybe.

The problem with being an employee is that we have to bend ourselves to fit our company's mould. The biggest issue, however, is that no company is perfect!

Take my latest job for instance. Am I happier than I was at my last job - yes. Are there problems with the company that are driving me nuts - yes!

I am working better hours now - just 40 hours per week. My base salary is 1/3 more, but...

• Its difficult for me to hit my commission targets.
• There are major systemic problems that make my work more difficult than it needs to be.
• I am not getting all of the work tools I need to make succeeding at my job easy.

I sense that my company's owner is happy to fix the above mentioned issues - its just that it will take time.

Time...

I am 38 years old this year. I promised myself that I'd be working in senior management by the time I hit 40. I will give my company 6 more months to get their shit together and then move on to a junior management position at the very least.

I am running out of time. I need to be hitting the big $$ very soon, or I am going to be living a poor existence in my retirement.

At my age, and in the pumping economic environment of my homeland...I don't have to settle for 2nd best.

A very successful man once said to me, "Don't sell yourself short, Scotty...NEVER sell yourself short."

I guess he was telling me to never settle for 2nd best in life.

He also told me that he knows people from the PM of Australia to the CEO's of some of the biggest companies in the world and that I am as good as them. He DID stress that I am NOT better than them, but that I am AS good as them.

I will just have to wait to see what tomorrow brings...but I wont be waiting too long!