Scrutinized to No End

As I was sitting in a meeting feeling the circulation in my legs cease in a closed-in hotel conference room the other day, complaints and negative comments were flying and explanations for procedures were dragging on for hours like slow torture, I thought to myself that maybe it's time for a career change. It's time to get away from this corporate world rat race, especially in my industry where our jobs are continually, endlessly scrutinized within our companies, by our regulatory agents, government and media. I thought I liked my job working with different people, traveling, but now after some years and several jobs later, maybe it's not all it's cracked up to be, and it's time to break-out into something else that is not picked apart under a microscope while we're busy covering our asses with needless documentation and memos-to-file. If not for our suffering economy, more of us would take chances and find jobs that truly fill our souls. I know this isn't it.