Many women, particularly mothers, are happy to stay out of the corporate rat race.
An unknown person once said that high school is the mouse race to prepare you for the rat race.
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"Glorifying the rat race will merely help to ensure that the biggest rats take charge of companies, " he says.
When I join the adults in the rat race, will I still be able to resist this feeling of absurdity?
As the book clearly shows, New York is as much of a rat race for its rodents, as it is for human residents.
How could I be blind to the daily rat race turning ever more people into leisure-free workaholics just to survive my all-too-attractive British models?
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Excellent, get on with it: just as there are those who opt out of that rat race and are equally happy having done so.
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Similarly, Bruno was a successful businessman in Germany before he got fed up with the rat race, and moved to Belize to live in a tent.
At the time that she and I met, I was living in Manhattan, working at Warner Brothers, and doing my little version of the rat race.
They also aspire to a higher place in society's pecking order, but in so doing force others in the rat race to run faster to keep up.
And so, near the top of Lord Layard's list for improving human happiness, comes the following recommendation: much higher rates of income tax to tame the rat race.
It's easy to get caught up in the rat race, the excitement of work, and the inner drive to chase all the great things the world has to offer.
But the dot-com rat race is becoming a circus.
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The guy who'd won an Oscar in Cameron Crowe's 1996 film, "Jerry Maguire, " was now appearing in lackluster fare such as "Rat Race, " ''Daddy Day Camp, " ''Boat Trip, " ''Chill Factor" and "Snow Dogs.
While Mullen sympathises with those players who face an uncertain future, the beautiful game has, according to the League One boss, become an unsentimental rat race, with clubs scurrying around to cobble together a promotion-winning squad.
"There's a desire to step out of the rat race, and in America, that goes very deep in the national psyche, " says Nick Rosen, author of "Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America" and editor of www.off-grid.net.
"I've seen it all, all that rat-race stuff, the arms-race stuff, " said Mr. Nye.
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If you are ready to chuck your rat-race career for something in the boondocks, take inspiration from Life 2.0, by FORBES Publisher Rich Karlgaard.
Like a rat-race commuter, you can get dressed, have breakfast, say goodbye to the goldfish, then march out the door ready to conquer the world.
When he tested the powder on mice they no longer ran up a steep incline to get a reward, nor tumbled down it in a stupor, but ran around, happy and alert, at the bottom, as if the rat-race did not exist.
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