the best time in life

What is the role of the senior management? To give direction? Or to make decision?

I guess the ideal situation is such that the senior management gives a clear direction but gives a lot of room for planning and minions like me will think, discuss, and cook up some recommendations for them to decide on (knowing full well that we are vulnerable because they certainly are smarter, have more experience, and will find ways to shoot down our proposal so that it may withstand the onslaught by the tax payers)

But it is just the ideal situation, there are times when the direction is unclear so recommendation and progress get stagnated (why forge ahead when it may be all wrong)

Anyway, such is the life of a young adult who prod along since he doesn't have the power to make decisions.

But then again, it's such a wasteful thing to do, and it is just as wasteful for those who are in operations where they are just busy earning big bucks or charging clients during and after office hours.

I was talking to Q over lunch yesterday that young adulthood is actually the best time in life: First of all, we are not too young to be easily dismissed and definitely not too old to dream. So why waste all the energy on something that won't benefit us? We should cater some time and energy, at least to pursue knowledge, to embark on changes, etc. Why work blindly just because we are the lowest in the food chain? Why don't we reserve some energy to improve ourselves?

I'll bet that JX will advise me to join the Opposition