40 years on, Harold and Maude is still wonderful!

I watched one of my long-time favorite movies this afternoon – Harold and Maude! It’s such a cool movie – Cat Stevens did the whole soundtrack (back when he still had his mojo) and it’s one of those rare movies that’s beautiful and funny and sad all at once. It was made back in 1971.

"Do you sing and dance? 'Uh, no.' I thought not!"

 

Harold plays his part perfectly but is just too creepy for the majority of the movie to get really attached to him.

And Maude is wonderful and lovable and subject to grand theft auto.
But the best characters in the movie are the supporting ones.

Newlyweds of 1905

A collage featuring 1905 newlyweds,

and a congratulatory letter from a far-off friend.

Highly-paid Careers for the Lazy & Greedy

Most people want to be able to look back on their career and recognize success. The time-honored formula is: hard work + vision = success. Banks and corporations have fairy tales about the unassuming guy who started out as a filing clerk, and retired forty years later as the president of the company.

This could be you

Thousands of people have done this on a more modest scale by gradually working their way up. What you don’t want to do is retire from an entry-level job at age 65. You might garner some ironic fame as the World’s Longest-Serving Envelope Stuffer, but it probably won’t be as fulfilling and glamorous as it sounds.

A popular alternative route is taking an education gamble. This strategy requires years of study to earn an advanced degree, then deposits an extremely educated person into the workforce pool, with impressive student loans and no experience. These people usually accept entry-level jobs that do not require any special academic background. The trick is to use your degree to move up quickly once you’ve gotten into an organization.