As I was thinking through the meal I’ll help prepare next week for my family, I started thinking about how we sometimes become the “turkey” in our workplaces. A turkey is wonderful bird, very large when left to grow in the wild. However, most of the fouls we actually eat are raised on a farm, and never get to experience the freedom, and the fear, of being wild.
When I think about my work history, I found myself doing the same thing. I had the desire to be free, but was getting caught in the ‘corporate farm’. If you’re a hunter, you know there are a couple different ways to raise animals. You can do the farm and slaughter them when it’s time: it’s efficient and cost-effective. However, you can also have a “reserve”, where you give the animals a safe, controlled environment to grow, but it’s open, more like being in the wild, but with boundaries to keep them safe. Hunters can then come to hunt in a limited space.
Melissa Truax
