1. Don’t work somewhere you hate.
2. If you hate where you work move on even if you end up with less money.
3. Stop gauging success in your life by the commas in your bank account.
4. Remember that everything you are doing is largely meaningless to everyone but you.
5. Remember that you are in that office to make money to live not to live.
6. No one owns you. They are renting your time.
7. If you are in a city walk home. If you are in the ‘burbs or a rural area don’t park in the company lot. Park a bit away so you can walk. Distance before your commute reminds you that you are a person on a planet, in a solar system, in the galaxy, in the universe, and not an ant.
8. Office politics are bullshit. Get involved if you want but each up is met with a down and each down is a redefined up.
9. Coworkers aren’t your friends. Even if they are off the clock they aren’t in the office.
10. It is an office. It is a job. If you can eat consider yourself accomplished as a lot of the world goes to bed starving.
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