Top five idealistic security recommendations

A wise man once told me about his discovery of the "Five Stages of Employment", which are a bit like the traditional "stages of grief"; i.e. how one comes to accept an imperfect situation with varying stages of grace. The stages of employment are: idealism, reality, anger, depression and hilarity.

When one begins a new employment adventure, one hopefully starts out with a certain level of idealism - thinking everything is going to be better, that they'll do great things and they'll receive ample support from co-workers as well as management. Reality comes shortly after - every job has its hurdles and bureaucracy. After realising this, when you think there might still be a way to fix these flaws, you get angry. When you realize some of these flaws are unfixable, depression sets in. After a while, you stop being so wrapped up in the flaws and can get enough perspective or emotional distance to laugh at these problems. In the next few months, we'll look at the top five suggestions for each stage.