Sorry I'm Late...

I received this message regarding yesterday's depression post.

...Don't take your job too seriously. If it didn't pay money, would you do it?...I really think you should spend more time pursuing your personal desires ...

Makes sense, but the answer to the first question... Yes. I would still do it if it didn't pay. Not at my current company, but yes the core idea, the idea of wanting to create WOW is something I do (try to) do even though it doesn't pay. Making this site doesn't pay, but I do it because I like it... it is my WOW project. (you may not think "WOW" when you see it, but the fact that more than 7 people read this site regularly is WOW to me).

As for pursuing my personal desires, am I a looser to feel that my personal desire is my work? That is the number one reason that I am focusing now on whatever I have to do to make it my business in the near future. I have not decided exactly what my business will be (if I knew I could do it now), but whatever it is it will be based on WOW.

I don't think any company has enough money to pay me to do something that I would not do for free. I quit a terrible job that paid twice as much as my current job because it was terrible.

I just got back from watching Japan vs. Belgium. It was actually a pretty good game. I think I am a freak though, because while the people I was with where thinking about if their team would score, I was occupied with the following thoughts.

1. I think it would be extremely popular if there was a "Virtual Player" system whereby viewers would choose a player before the game, then be wired to sensors that inflict pain to various parts of the body where the actual player feels pain. A sophisticated system would also raise the fan's heartbeat to match the players, and allow them to feel the same amount of fatigue.

   Of course this is probably not possible now in real time, but if there was a 10 second delay, a "pain manager" could watch the game and have enough time to push the "pain infliction button" for all the users.

2. How much would it cost for the Japan marketing office of MasterCard, Coca-Cola, Gillette, etc... (sponsors of the World Cup with banners around the field) to offer a bonus to any Japanese player who scores a goal and strikes a memorable victory pose directly in front of one of their banners? Such an image would result in thousands of exposures via replays on the news and sports programs.
3. Why is it that the loudest and most "alive" table in the bar tonight (before the first goal) was a group of old ladies that where not even watching the game?
4. Why is it that the other viewers did not get excited until after a goal was scored? And then, why was each time they came within 200 yards of the goal, and every time they kicked the ball 20 feet over the goal (just as happened so many time before the first goal) so much more exciting after a goal?
5. Did the Japanese players all dye their hair blonde especially for the World Cup? If not, why is it that only the Japanese team looks so ridiculous?

I had a crazy thought last night. Medical School. I think I could get in even with my background if it was in Jamaica or the likes.

Car Talk, a show I used to love on NPR, even though I have absolutely no interest in cars, is also available on-line. But better than that, the Car Talk web-site has the Tic and Tac brothers' biography. I didn't realize it until someone told me last week, but they are graduates of MIT with doctorates and MBAs. Read about their life, and I start to see what people mean when they say that I take my job too seriously. Maybe I should make them my role-models.