Giving is true loving.
The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.
In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.
What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.
Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.
The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.
Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.
We live in a vale of tears. . . We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.
Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.
Already were seeing graduates of U. S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U. S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.
Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.