Did you sell out?

Question

It seems like you've got to make compromise after compromise to make it in a career. You end up looking at just how many compromises you made after 5 years and you realise pretty much all the ethics and morals you started with have been eroded because you had to fit in and adapt to the game. Has this happened to you? Was it worth it?

Answer 1

For a while, I had to, to survive, pay the bills, raise my daughter. But now that I have my own business I don't think I could ever go back to the rat race. And that is what you become, just another rat scurrying around blindly.

Answer 2

or you can go the other road and be proud of your resistance in the face of conformity and rampant consumerism, knowing you're batter than all those losers who went mainstream and "sold out"- I mean look at underground bands- who's cooler than them? and once a band becomes too popular, it's not cool anymore.

ELITISM!!!!

let's look at quality instead of how popular or unpopular, how uncool or cool, how conformist or nonconformist something is. People should think for themselves instead of thinking they think for themselves because the reject what is most popular or think is most popular. they're just two sides of the same coin. snobs. nonconformity is the new conformity.

Answer 3

I went my own way and started my own business. I couldn't handle getting divebombed by my bosses in my cubicle.