Leadership Advice: quote from Steve Jobs

Mr Baskerville has decided to write some regular* posts with Useful Advice for jobseekers. After all, his inbox is regularly spammed by a company whose name ryhmes with Blinked In, so clearly there's a demand for the sort of wanky article which urge to to be a better, more productive, harder working person.

Mr Baskerville would like to be a hard working person. So, if anyone out there has a job they'd like him to do, just send a contract over!**

Today's unsolicited email was about 'how to be the best version of you'.

An idea that could lead to long nights clutching a vodka bottle under the bedclothes, as you shiver in the dark wondering if you are actually Mr Baskverille version 1.0, when clearly by now you should be version 5.

But enough of this metaphysical bollocks!*** Mr Baskerville is sure his reader, like himself, is secure in his identity. In fact, he is not only the best version of Mr Baskerville, but of a few other people as well. So there! Ha! Pass the vodka!!

Ahem.

The article discussed a quote from Steve Jobs:

your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life

Then it went on about being yourself, nothing worth doing is easy, blah fucking blah, we all know that. But it raised an interesting point:

Who is living Mr Baskerville's interesting life? Clearly, this one he's got going over here isn't his ideal life. He's barely employed, writing SEO articles about weight loss while stuffing chocolate down his neck, and desperately searching for a job so he can immediately start saving for his next big trip.

So where's his life, eh? If you've seen it, wondering around slightly drunk but happy, send it back. Mr Baskerville misses it.

*this is a lie
** Mr Baskerville prefers to be paid in used, small denomination notes
***Metaphysical Bollocks is the name of Mr Baskerville's band