Assessing Time, Career, and Life Directions

Manage Work, Life

In the classic 1960s Twilight Zone episode: “Time Enough At Last,” Burgess Meredith plays a bookish bank teller who is always in trouble with his boss for reading on the job. One day, while reading in the bank vault in the basement, a cataclysmic war breaks out and suddenly the sad little bank teller is the last living person on Earth. While he is frightened at first, he is later elated when he stumbles across a vast cache of books strewn on a street from a destroyed library. The little man raises his fists and says, “Time enough at last!” Unfortunately, as the little man leans over to pick up his first book, his extremely thick and heavy glasses fall off his face and smash into pieces. The availability of time is not the ...