MMM-How many jobs have you had over the past couple of years?
 
 
Jackie Doe-Including what I'm doing now, I have worked at four different companies in the past couple of years, in seven different positions.
 
 

MMM-You were with one start-up company in its early stages. What was it like on the inside?
 
 
Jackie Doe-Claustrophobic... It was just very intense. You're with a small group of people. You are with these people all of the time, and there is tremendous pressure to deliver a product. The dynamics in this company were even a little stranger than normal, because the two 'twenty-somethings' who were running it had never worked in a start-up, but had this charicature of an idea of what a start-up company should be like. They wanted us all to conform to this idea.
 
 

MMM-Describe some of the stranger situations that you encountered, or possibly any co-workers, Execs. who were... Let's say a bit damaged.
 
 
Jackie Doe-Everybody's damaged. Everybody comes to work damaged already, but then the workplace causes even more damage and disfunctionality because of this strange insistence that we are not really people, and that we are not emotional. Emotion is something we are expected to check at the company's front door. Instead, the repression causes it all to leak out around the edges in strange powerplays and politics.
 
 

MMM-Do you have any advice for any individuals seeking the corporate life, the grass-roots start-up company or anything in between?
 
 
Jackie Doe-This is going to sound trite, but I think it's really important to know yourself really well, and know what you really want.