Anti-Sabbatical:
A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a
limited period of time (often one year). The intention is to raise
enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful
activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer
knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of
intentions.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a
limited period of time (often one year). The intention is to raise
enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful
activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer
knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of
intentions.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Recurving:
Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one
back on the learning curve
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time
but only with proper vaccinations. -- Douglas Coupland... - Mid-twenties Breakdown:
A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties
often caused by inability to function outside of school... - Now Denial:
To tell oneself that the only time worth living is in the past
and that the only time that may ever be interesting again is the
future
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Fame-induced Apathy:
The attitude that no activity is worth pursuing unless one can
become very famous pursuing it
Fame-induced Apathy mimics laziness, but its roots... - Historical Overdosing:
To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines... - Historical Underdosing:
To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines... - Occupational Slumming:
Taking a job well beneath one's skill or education level as a
means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding possible
failure in one's true occupation
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
