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Big Fish Small Pond?
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Would you rather be the bigger fish in a small but very nice pond or a medium to smallish fish in a big gilded pond?
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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Which pond is getting pissed in more?
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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Big fish = big target.

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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Smaller fish in bigger pond. In every aspect of my life I've always felt like I was just cheating myself if I wasn't trying to make a go of it in the 'bigger pond'.

Long Chile was a silly place.
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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I’d prefer a stream.

Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [Duffy] [ In reply to ]
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Duffy wrote:
I’d prefer a stream.

Yellow or brown?

I’d prefer to be a small fish in a big pond - plenty of room to grow.
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [triguy101] [ In reply to ]
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triguy101 wrote:
Duffy wrote:
I’d prefer a stream.

Yellow or brown?

I’d prefer to be a small fish in a big pond - plenty of room to grow.

But the scenery never changes.

Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [Duffy] [ In reply to ]
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Duffy wrote:
triguy101 wrote:
Duffy wrote:
I’d prefer a stream.

Yellow or brown?

I’d prefer to be a small fish in a big pond - plenty of room to grow.

But the scenery never changes.

You’re 100% right.

But it also depends on the pond.

Plus don’t forget, as a fish you have a 5second memory ;)

In line with the OP, today is my last day after 15 yrs at the same place. Time to jump in a different pond, or stream.

Trail, if you are reading...it can be done!!!
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [triguy101] [ In reply to ]
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In a work context, I quite like a small, high calibre pond. One with some ornamental features, some nice lilies and other greenery. I've been in big ponds before and find some of the other medium fish competing to be big fish get very tiresome.

In a sporting context, the bigger the pond the better.
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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Which pond has more herons? It would really suck to just be swimming along watching out for fish hooks and get scooped up and killed by a big fucking bird you never saw.

I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." -- Satan from Paradise Lost, Milton

...and later immortalized by Khan in Star Trek -- Space Seed, Season 1, episode 22. :-)


"100% of the people who confuse correlation and causation end up dying."
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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Was a medium to medium large fish in a small pond for about 12 years, moved to being a medium to medium small fish in a very large pond, the size of the org makes a huge difference but it's also determined by the culture of the org. pros/cons to both but if the culture sucks it's gonna suck either way.
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Re: Big Fish Small Pond? [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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Since both ponds are nice I take big fish in small pond. It has always worked out for me in the past. Not that I regard myself as much of a big fish.

They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

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