by Gary Maclean

Created on: July 20, 2008   Last Updated: February 08, 2012

Your alarm clock goes off and jerks you out of your deep slumber. You look through glazed and crusted, half open eyes and finally realize it is only 5:00AM. You reach over and give the clock a slap on the top, hoping you were accurate enough to not screw up the snooze alarm. In less than a minute you drift away and are back in the arms of that lovely dream girl, right where you left off.

Ten more minutes go by and the screaming clang of the alarm shocks you back into reality once again. You slap the clock one more time only now you know you had better be careful because it is after 5:00 AM and you have to be to work by 6:00 AM. You lay there for a few more minutes, eyes closed, mind drifting, body walking to the bathroom, in your thoughts that is.

Once again the screeching of the alarm clock startles you. This time you sit up on the edge of the bed and stare at the face of the clock in disbelief. 5:20AM? How did that happen? You jump up, run through the shower, shake a toothbrush around in your mouth for a minute, rake a comb through your long disheveled hair and slap on the same clothes you had on yesterday. Let's roll, time to get going!

Off to work you go. You know what the day will bring. You'll punch in, on time, run to the john to finish getting squared away, and finally end up at your workstation. This will be the same place you have stood for the last three years. You will do the same thing today that you have done for the past three years. Your mind will drift and even leave your body, but you will stand there and do what you are being paid to do. You have a job!

At the end of the day you will pull yourself away from the hypnotic stance you have been in for eight hours, head for the time clock and free yourself from your grind. You do this five days a week and finally pick up what you have been waiting for all week, your paycheck. Meager as you may think it to be, it is yours and it is money.

Not a very pretty scene but don't let it make you quit your job. In today's questionable economy one would have to look long and hard to find a solid reason to leave a current position and seek another. When the economy fluctuates as much as it has recently, we all must be cautious about leaving anything behind, unless we already have somewhere else to go.

There are several reasons that could cause someone to look elsewhere even in the shaky economy of the 2000's and even if they already have a decent paying job;

5) SCREAMING BOSS: Do you have one of those bosses

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