The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

The start of the week.

A week full of hope, promises and potential.

Oh who am I kidding? It’s Monday. Fucking Monday.

Now at this point, maybe you expect me to sweep in and add some colour to your grey day. Some optimism to your 8 hours of impending misery? Well if you do you obviously haven’t been reading this blog very long because in reality, I’m going to double down on the misery.

Here is a website.

Click on it.

Go on. I promise it won’t take you to anywhere embarrassing. Oh no, it will just take you to somewhere humiliating.

I don’t mean weird pictures or embarrassing photos – oh no – I mean something much worse.

Your salary!

OK, not literally yours – but it’s a website that shows you how quickly certain CEO’s take to earn your salary. Your annual salary.

And while I get that people like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos would take an embarrassingly small amount of time to do it – in many cases, seconds rather than days or weeks or months – when it takes an equally small amount of time for the CEO of LinkedIn, that’s why your Monday will hurt with the sort of ferocity that you last felt when you had to go back to school after summer holidays.

With that and the news that the best Prime Minister in the World, New Zealand’s Jacinda Arden, has only just turned 40 … you can look at yourself in the mirror and feel really good about yourself.

Hey, it could be worse, you could be unemployed and 50.