First
of all, I apologize for writing this second part of the blog after so
long; but it was a legal decision, now I am free to write.
I
already told you how my thesis lead me to start writing about the
financial crisis and how my cousin works in Boston for one of the
banks which originated the crisis.
Well,
now let me tell you about the first person I meet from the boston consulting group. It was last year, she was from Madrid, not older than 23 and came
direct from College to work for the boston consulting group. I could see in this girl eyes that she had no idea about life and no idea about work. Have you seen “Up in the air”?, remember that ambitious young girl with the evil "glocal" idea? Well, the one I met was the same but in
blonde.
She
and her colleagues (all same size, same age, same laugh, same suit, same laptop)
conducted a “study” in my former office. After some months of “work”, they presented the organisation managers pre-prepared results during a nice
presentation. But let´s go back to coincidences, because there is one between the boston consulting group and me: a movie I saw while researching for my thesis in Nicaragua: "Up in the air"
Some weeks ago I was fired "glocally" via telephone, yes! just like in the movie. While the people on the phone was telling me I was loosing my job, I could´t stop thinking of two womens: the ambitious girl in the movie and the ambitious girl from the boston consulting group, I really hated them at that moment!
Two weeks ago I was thinking how to write this blog, and back then my mom was visiting me in Innsbruck. One evening I went to a bar with Christian and Matteo and when a girl who apparently wanted to flirt asked me something, I suddenly realised how cool it was to be in my situation. My answer to her was "My name is Oscar, I am 34 years old, unemployed and I live with my mother". How cool is that? Eh? For making me so cool, I no longer hate the young ambitious girl from the boston consulting group.
