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So here’s a question for you. Does your next job exist? I don’t mean is there an opening someplace. I mean it literally – do you think the role itself exists? It’s not as simple a question as one might think. After all – the job I’m in now – consultant – has existed for a long time but one area of expertise in which I consult – digital media – has only been around for 15 years or so. So let’s think about this for a second and what it means. Continue reading
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Mondays are always interesting. I’d find I could gauge how interesting they were going to be based on the response I got when I asked “how was your weekend.” It was a pretty direct correlation – the more interesting the weekend, the more difficult Monday was going to be. I think it was kind of like starting a car after it had been in the garage for a while. Your work brain was put to bed for a couple of days and starting it back up was harder if you’d really managed to enjoy yourself extensively.
Fridays used to be interesting as well, especially late Friday afternoons. We had a running joke that anything bad that was going to happen during a week began right after 3p on a Friday. Which of course made Monday all the more interesting. The point? Continue reading
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I’m sure you pay attention to one sort of social stream or another. Maybe it’s a Facebook news feed; maybe a list of friends or business contacts on Twitter. I do, and what’s interesting to me is that often the age differences between some of the folks I follow come to the fore in a not very subtile way. This happened the other day when the internet service went out in someone’s building and they wailed about not being able to get anything done. I’m paraphrasing here but there was a shout out to us oldsters asking “how the hell did you get anything done without technology.” Damn good question – thanks for asking. Continue reading
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