Corporate Gigolinas

The Cube was unfair to single out only the boys yesterday: there are quite a few Corporate "Gigolinas" out there, too. 'Just came across a couple - intelligent women, good speakers, well dressed - with no substantive accomplishment beyond the ability to talk a good business game to the middle-aged male executive or financier with money to lose. 

Now, let's step back a moment and look at both the Corporate Gigolos and Gigolinas. They're not con artists, boy toys or trophy wives-to-be. They are smart young business people who find an older male or female executive with money and a need for validation. The Gigos turn their brains to riding the wave of salaried (high salaried) employment as advisors, personal assistants, consultants to these folks -- never caring one way or another if the plan/project/business is a good idea or not. Doesn't matter to them. Spend the money or budget and, if it starts to run out, look for contacts along the way who are suitably impressed by your appearance and obvious professionalism that you can jump ship with hardly a wet toe.

Corporate Gigolos

'Didn't intend to write any more, but... well...

Met a few guys lately who fall into a category I can only describe as "corporate gigolos". 

What the hell is that?

Well... Take an educated male, with no particular accomplishment, but some education, perhaps some well-developed spiel about a high-tech area of promise, and team him with a woman of some accomplishment but, perhaps, in need of cheering up, or validation, or something to make her current situation make sense.  The "Corporate Gigolo" seduces with the energy of his presentation, the flash of his buzz-word knowledge, the simple fact that he exudes the same confidence that the accomplished woman (or man) had felt for years --- until recently.

Is it real? To a certain extent.

Is it honest? To the extent that the Corporate Gigolo certainly believes in himself.

Is it "honest" honest? No. The Corporate Gigolo exists on words, on promises. He is not an accomplisher - he is  promoter - of himself.

He is very successful. Because - as we all grow older - we understand how little we know. And we want so much - so much - to recapture the confidence of youth.