Reply #14: so, like was he Gene Simmons' agent? i'm a woman and creative director

[nashville_brook]

and I"LL TELL YOU why women get out of the game. it's because it's full of asshats like French.

we had a long-lost friend over the other night. he was the guitar player in hubby's band when i was in college. after the band stopped touring he went to nursing school and is now a Critical Care Nurse.

we were doing the dozens while he strummed a ukelele and asked him if his job was anything like "ER" on tv. he said "it's a job. we don't freak out everytime someone goes critical. we can't or else we'd be rotten nurses." he pantomimed giving CPR to a patient and chatting about what's for lunch in the cafeteria.

hubby and me stopped in our tracks. "you mean, it's not like, a LIFE OR DEATH situation?"

guitar playing nurse: "no way."

me and hubby: "then WHY the HELL, are our jobs (marketing and software) always freakoramas?"

when i was working it was COMMON that every little job was a LIFE AND DEATH situaltion. "THE PMS COLORS AREN'T MATCHING!...WHEN ARE THE PROOFS GONNA BE READY?...CLIENT IS SCREAMING FOR COPY...etc etc." the calls would come on Thanksgiving...after midnight...when i was in crisis with sick relatives...dying parents....

women get out of the GAME b/c the GAME (as the boyz play it) is BULLSHIT. marketing is not life or death. being a mother/wife/human IS LIFE. we don't "CRAP." the game is CRAP.

no amount of money is worth living in a world of constant emergency. oh, and you know what the emergency always is...someones' big fat ego. no more.

(ps -- i got out of the game b/c i tired of the shit. i'm childless. i'd much rather be baking bread, writing and working on my wonderful life with my wonderful husband than spending all my emotional energy on vapid sycophants and hucksters.)