What most people don't know about Corporate Executives.

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To listen to the incompetent press, one would think that corporate executives all make millions of dollars a year to do nothing but sit around abusing the "real" workes. In fact, from listening and learning from people who, corporate executives don't have "real" jobs, any responsibility to speak of, nor do they have anything to do all day but act busy and chase secretaries. I guess I have been guilty of that kind of thought at times. I mean, there was a time I didn't know any corporate execs and probably fell into some of the stereotypes the incompetent press and pop culture preaches. As my life has unfolded through time, I have been close friends with a lot of corporate execs and their families. I've learned what they do, what their responsibilities are, and the benefits and drawbacks to their lifestyle. If you're a corporate exec, the only 8 hour days you work are those you were supposed to have off, but ended up getting called in anyway. 8 hour days are for the workers, not the execs. If you ever had a 40 hour work week, it meant you must have been sick a couple of days. 60-80 hours is more likely to happen. For corporate execs, the term "job security" means absolutely nothing. In fact, you know going into it that you probably won't work for any 1 company more than a few years. This is by choice, but it's also by circumstance. Everytime there's a new concept or business plan, your job is on the line. Everytime a new CEO takes over, you're probably out of work. Everytime a VP decides it's time to shake things up.. your job becomes shaky. The families of Corporate execs move around as much as military families. I don't know any kids of execs who spent more than 2 or 3 years in the same school. The only kids I know who have lived in as many states as my own (military family) are those of execs. Lunch and dinner breaks? What are those? The only difference between meal time and work time is, during meal times there's food involved. There is no "break room" where you sit around shooting the breeze with your co-workers while you enjoy lunch. In fact, most execs I know don't actually eat a whole lunch at one time. Lunch is basically eaten a few bites at a time throughout the day. For lower and mid-level execs, figuring out what they made an hour is just depressing... especially when they find out that a lot of the people working the floor and the janitors make more per our than they do... especially when you're talking about union labor. I'm not saying that there aren't any benefits to being an executive, there are. But anyone who thinks its all champaign, 3 martini lunches and the easy life.. well, you're just wrong. Just think of it this way... There are hundreds of thousands of corporate execs in the US alone... but the only ones who live the way the incompetent press make them out are the ones in the upper echelons of the Fortune 500... in other words, a relative few actually get there.