My co-worker Alisha and I were talking today about the movie "Falling Down". The movie starring Michael Douglass, is about a man displaced from his job who's mad at the world. He keeps running into injustice and absurdity as he travels across Los Angeles to his ex-wife's home in Venice Beach. The movie gives great insight into the ills of society. George Carlin does the same.

I have a quote from George Carlin over my desk about the adsurdity of the way "Man" thinks. Here it is: Think for a moment about flamethrowers. The fact that we have them at all. What it indicates to me is that at some point, some person said to himself, "Look at all those people across the road. What I wouldn't give to set them on fire. But I'm much too far away. If only I had some device that would shoot flames on them."

Society needs more people like George Carlin and movies like "Falling Down" to put a mirror in front of our face to show us how absurd we act at times. And then shake us up enough to want to do something about it.

This past week I've been getting resumes for people to fill the position I'm leaving. It was two years ago that I was in a similar place. I moved to Denver from Orlando and immediately starting looking for a job. After a while I gave up and restarted my business.

So as I get the resumes now I'm more sympathetic. I understand what they are going through, how they want communication. That was my biggest gripe when I was doing my search. Even when I had a phone interview and in person interview, it was difficult waiting to hear back, even when I initiated phone calls.

I interviewed for a position about a month and a half ago. I've been leaving voice messages with the hiring manager, and finally today I heard from him. Their company got bought and they were in a holding pattern. It still would have been nice to hear something.

In the meantime, I decided to leave the company I was with and get commitments from various clients to do greater amounts of things. If this company I interviewed with still wants me I doubt I'll go with them. Maybe they can outsource some work to me as a contractor, but I'm ready to have more control over my destiny.