Meaning in Life
So everyone seeks a purpose in life, right?
For most people it's marriage and children. Folks who fail at that focus on religion.
I never wanted those things.
For me it's a job. A good job. Something that I enjoy, something that gives me purpose, something that will keep me occupied enough that I'll never have the time or the desire to marry. I think I've found that job.
I mentioned it before a while back, but I'm working in advertising, and it's a job I totally did not deserve at first. Now, though, I am ****ing owning the shit out of it. I love this job. The hours are horrific, the pressure is intense. Deadlines are always on the horizon, someone's always breathing down my neck. By all rights it should be horrible.
But it isn't. You know why? Because my job is to come up with slogans and designs that make idiots buy this product rather than the other. Never mind that this product costs five dollars more, or that the other product is of higher quality. This one's cooler, or at least that's what the guy with the awesome voice said on the radio.
As some of you know I have a rather negative opinion of people. This job totally reinforces that. I'm exploiting idiocy to make money and it fills me with rapture.
Oh. And you know what's even more awesome? I'm going to be recording some pieces for a radio bit. It may or may not fall through, but there is a very real possibility some of you will hear my voice on the radio soon. So go out and buy whatever awful, shitty, unhealthy product it is I'm trying to push, hmm?
"There's a sucker born every minute."
P.S. You may have noticed that advertisements are ridiculously stupid. That's not becasue the guys coming up with them are stupid. That's because stupidity appeals to the stupid. Anything particularaly clever or witty would sail right over the heads of our desired demographic. Believe me, the guys coming up with those advertisements are laughing hysterically at how well they work.
Last edited by Gribble; 09-11-09 at 10:55 PM.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein