The Rick in my Name

My father's name is Rick. He's named after my grandfather and my younger brother also holds the same name. I wasn't given the traditional family name to pass on, although I do hold true to keeping the rick close at hand. It's because I'm a maverick.

Maverick: a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates.

This suits me. Or as the boyfriend told me at lunch today: "They pay me to disagree with them." Now that's a great attitude. The point is not to disagree to disagree, but to disagree because that's what's the right thing to do.

Comments

[pinky the first]

sweet! Too bad your boss isn't like Sam's boss! I thought about you today, while I was listening to a podcast about best buy today, and they were saying how the culture was so different from most companies in that they are starting a thing of not holding people to hours worked, but just results. No micromanaging, no BS, just "Here's what we need from you, and when."

Maverick is a great name. I recently met one online. We'll see if he fits the name...

[Dossy Shiobara]

Are you sure your parents didn't secretly name you "Heatherick" and just shortened it to "Heather" to keep your life simple?

:-P