Would it be cliched to link to Dooce, who deserves every bit of success she has had? I have both loved and taken as cautionary the story of how she was fired from her college-grad-information-economy job for making fun of her coworkers and bosses on her blog. Then she met her husband, eloped, moved to Mormon Mecca, and had her daughter, blogging about it all the while. She now supports her family in what looks to me like style from her site and other related computer-y things, and Dooce.com is a cottage industry. This story about running into some of her old corporate superiors is what inspired me to fire up Blogger:
So I made the gesture to shake his hand when I realized that I recognized the other two men with him, and then BOOM, it hit me in the face like the lid of a titanium coffin. All three men were vice-presidents at the company that fired me in 2002. And the one standing in the middle was the one I used to make fun of for talking so loud that you could hear him over a low-flying F-16. AND HE QUOTED THAT TO ME.
I had to reach out and grab Jon's arm so that I wouldn't fall over, but they smiled kindly, congratulated me on my success, and said they were amazed that after all these years I was still taking the most mundane stories and making them sound like an Olympic event. Because they still read my website. And remember that one time I was walked to my car with all my office supplies in a box? And told never to return? Wasn't THAT the best thing that ever happened to me.
