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The project leader by *coshipi:iconcoshipi:

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(3 months into the project...)

Boss: This is your project, you know.

Cosh: I thought I was working on it with G*****.

Boss: You are, but you're the project leader.

Cosh: First I've heard of it.

Boss: Don't you want to be the project leader?

Cosh: Not really, no. Is it a promotion? What's it worth?

Boss: Well, obviously it'll be taken into consideration in the annual salary review.

Cosh: Hmm. Jam tomorrow? Ten years ago, I might have been tempted. Five years ago, I'd have wanted cash up front – and a good deal more than just a good annual salary review, at that. Today? How many wild horses have you got?
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Another one that's really too short to need a description.

This is not the exact conversation I've just had with my boss, but it's a close paraphrase.
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*coshipi:iconcoshipi: Feb 10, 2006, 12:45:47 AM
:) Thanks!

It pretty nearly IS real...
*Wodewose:iconWodewose: Feb 10, 2006, 1:15:30 AM
:rofl: Sounds rather familiar - in all the scenarios you paint in your final comment ;)

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*coshipi:iconcoshipi: Feb 10, 2006, 1:43:03 AM
I like the parallelism between your comment and Marie-Aude's! :)

Do my boss justice, he took it on the chin, and no hard feelings at all.
*Wodewose:iconWodewose: Feb 10, 2006, 1:55:50 AM
Good. I, on the other hand, am now freelance... ;)

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*coshipi:iconcoshipi: Feb 10, 2006, 2:09:31 AM
I'm just a little closer to (early) retirement... :)

Whether anything I do in retirement will earn any money, who knows? Whether I'll call it freelance work if it does, who knows?
*Wodewose:iconWodewose: Feb 10, 2006, 2:18:23 AM
Of course, I'm not earning much while I'm doing this... ;)
I no longer actually envisage myself retiring in the conventional sense. I'm taking an advance on my retirement now, by engaging in a comfortable combination of part-time and sporadic work :)

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*coshipi:iconcoshipi: Feb 10, 2006, 2:26:29 AM
I'd quite like to do that, too, but I don't feel in any position to - I don't think I could reliably earn enough.
*Wodewose:iconWodewose: Feb 10, 2006, 2:34:00 AM
Sorry :(

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