Posted by: maureen in win, surprise, privilege on
Feb 13, 2012
If you had all the money in the world, what would you do for fun?
A lot of you, from what you tell me, would host a radio talk show. The biggest surprise in the three or four years of having that on my resume is how many people want it on theirs.
Surprising only because they live in big homes next to movie stars or make the rounds of morning television shows or speak to audiences of thousands for more money--at one gig--than I used to make in a whole year. And when we finish recording interviews for The Career Clinic and I ask if I can return the favor their answers are often some variation of, “Yes. Please tell me how to get your job.”
I laugh. And I answer with some variation of, “I’ll tell you as soon as we figure it out ourselves.” Because The Career Clinic, while every bit the blast I imagined it would be when I dreamed it up twenty years ago, is a startup.
Read into that whatever you want!
It’s glamorous for two hours a week while we’re recording. The other one hundred and sixty-six hours of the week? I should turn it over to Darrell at this point, because it isn’t even glamorous for him for the two hours we spend recording.
And yet, and yet…this morning we had a little sunlight burst through sixteen years of mostly fog. His name is Mike, and not since Skip--who helped us find Mike, by the way--have we looked at each other and thought we might get to put North Shore Productions in the win column after all.
I love the scene in Rocky where he’s telling some kid if you hang out with bums, you’ll become a bum. You hang out with winners, however he worded it, and you’ve given yourself a chance at a good life.
I’ve never really thought of myself as a winner except in terms of the people I’m lucky enough to rub shoulders with. Darrell, Katie, Skip, Mike, Chris--to give you a few examples--what an embarrassment of (aspirational) riches!
All I want out of life is to have earned the privilege of having them in mine.
