As I laid in shavasana pose at Yoga to the People tonight I tried hard to clear away all of my thoughts. A Yogi will tell you this is the hardest pose.
Generally I think people rotate through the same handful of thoughts a day. And if you are what you think then I'm: #1 pay off my school loans #2 chocolate chip cookie #3 I want a dishwasher #4 Go for big money or the dream? #5 I will be 120 lbs!
As all women can agree, number two and number five are in a constant battle... However, the most reoccurring thought I have is hands down number four: do I go for a job that will pay well and hope to get out by six to do hobbies I love, OR, do I live the "high risk = high reward" lifestyle and go for a dream?
(insert late night bar debates and mass confusion = %&$^#%$#%$#)
Okay, back to shavasana. My favorite part of exercising is the moment when you can't think of anything else on God's green Earth (!) besides the pain from pushing your muscles an inch further, a step higher, a second longer. All is lost, and for a split second numbers one through five vanish.
But like all kids born in the early eighties, I suffer from stream of consciousness. Therefore, I'm not positive I will ever be able to clear my mind longer than that brief second. Which is why I love listening to quotes during shavasana. Tonight's quote was The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
Here is an excerpt of Oriah's poem:
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
...
With that, I'm finished debating number four.
3/13/10
Dog walker
As I sit here typing on a very rainy - blah day out I have to wonder, can I get a dog walker?
I don't have a dog. I love dogs, but I can't get one now. First I have no extra money for another living thing, even a fish (times are bad). But second, which may be more important than the first, I'm not sure I can garner that much responsibility. Another life? I haven't moved from the couch in four hours (except to eat the rest of my giant cookie in the fridge).
So this had me thinking. Can people get walkers? In lieu of a creative name for this I will call this "dog walkers walking people". I guess I should add an "Inc." at the end to make it sound more officially weird.
But really, I wouldn't mind someone coming to my home office to remind me to get up, out and walk around the block.
We wouldn't have to say much to each other. I surly wouldn't get up and leave everyday for mindless chit-chat small talk. But I hear vitamin D is important and I haven't gone outside during the day all week. Working from home has it's high and low points. Like you have the freedom to walk around with a pony tail on the top of your head and wear white strips, glasses and a mu-mu. However, walking outside to get a cappuccino you tend to feel guilty. I start to think "would I want someone to charge me for them to walk around to get their cappuccino?" No.
But I'm sure there could be an elaborate presentation showing the positive work effects of employing the Dog Walkers Walking People Inc. Maybe if I had more vitamin D I would have the minor ambition to create said power point. But I don't.
I haven't been walked.
I don't have a dog. I love dogs, but I can't get one now. First I have no extra money for another living thing, even a fish (times are bad). But second, which may be more important than the first, I'm not sure I can garner that much responsibility. Another life? I haven't moved from the couch in four hours (except to eat the rest of my giant cookie in the fridge).
So this had me thinking. Can people get walkers? In lieu of a creative name for this I will call this "dog walkers walking people". I guess I should add an "Inc." at the end to make it sound more officially weird.
But really, I wouldn't mind someone coming to my home office to remind me to get up, out and walk around the block.
We wouldn't have to say much to each other. I surly wouldn't get up and leave everyday for mindless chit-chat small talk. But I hear vitamin D is important and I haven't gone outside during the day all week. Working from home has it's high and low points. Like you have the freedom to walk around with a pony tail on the top of your head and wear white strips, glasses and a mu-mu. However, walking outside to get a cappuccino you tend to feel guilty. I start to think "would I want someone to charge me for them to walk around to get their cappuccino?" No.
But I'm sure there could be an elaborate presentation showing the positive work effects of employing the Dog Walkers Walking People Inc. Maybe if I had more vitamin D I would have the minor ambition to create said power point. But I don't.
I haven't been walked.
11/13/09
Crowdsourcing/Outsourcing. The new hotness (ahhh, finally.)
I'm a tech hipster. You will tell me about (insert URL) and then I will provide you a smile and an eye roll and say, "used it last week". The same way the entire borough of Brooklyn uses this conversation rubric with music. (Only they'll tell you they've heard of whatever band months ago)
So, as a tech hipster, I always aspire to work with people that know more than me. Recently I met up with a friend that definitely does. So, I admit it, I'm totally behind in these new agencies that are popping up left and right. Here are some I have new crushes on: (please comment to share more)
bigspaceship
victorandspoils
firstborn
p.i.c.
But, no matter what, I may always be in love with Ideo . As long as they are always in love with being privately owned. ;)
And now, MY RANT:
Don't get me wrong crowdsourcing is great, but take it a step further already! Is it not already common knowledge that people work better in groups? The Berg portfolio school gets it. So, what's next?
Personally, I think ad agencies in the short future will be looking drastically different. Clients have wised up to the middlemen, and just how much that overhead costs them. They are falling in love with PR and how cheap anything digital is.
So, the only way I see agencies slashing their prices, but still yielding a profit is one word: outsource.
That word said, I'm wondering why bootB business model isn't crushing it. (Besides the fact that they put their entire website in Bradley hand font) Look at this: compete
As an aside: from dating a guy at oDesk , I do know the qualms of outsourcing. I realize the difficulty in explaining exactly how you want your Maya file rendered from halfway across the world in a different time zone, but if that's where the best 3D graphic artist lives, well... I guess the question becomes; do you want the best? (And sure one of the three pillars of production [time, money, and quality] can come into play)
But I truly believe that the term AOR is out, and in with the term project based. I think the new way of looking for a job will be explaining your skill set. The approach of; "I don't care what bus I'm on, I just want to sit in one particular seat." So the challenge for hiring managers is to pin point exactly what is great about their incoming talent and to eventually place them where they can shine.
Fingers crossed someone tasks me with interactive concepting.
So, as a tech hipster, I always aspire to work with people that know more than me. Recently I met up with a friend that definitely does. So, I admit it, I'm totally behind in these new agencies that are popping up left and right. Here are some I have new crushes on: (please comment to share more)
bigspaceship
victorandspoils
firstborn
p.i.c.
But, no matter what, I may always be in love with Ideo . As long as they are always in love with being privately owned. ;)
And now, MY RANT:
Don't get me wrong crowdsourcing is great, but take it a step further already! Is it not already common knowledge that people work better in groups? The Berg portfolio school gets it. So, what's next?
Personally, I think ad agencies in the short future will be looking drastically different. Clients have wised up to the middlemen, and just how much that overhead costs them. They are falling in love with PR and how cheap anything digital is.
So, the only way I see agencies slashing their prices, but still yielding a profit is one word: outsource.
That word said, I'm wondering why bootB business model isn't crushing it. (Besides the fact that they put their entire website in Bradley hand font) Look at this: compete
As an aside: from dating a guy at oDesk , I do know the qualms of outsourcing. I realize the difficulty in explaining exactly how you want your Maya file rendered from halfway across the world in a different time zone, but if that's where the best 3D graphic artist lives, well... I guess the question becomes; do you want the best? (And sure one of the three pillars of production [time, money, and quality] can come into play)
But I truly believe that the term AOR is out, and in with the term project based. I think the new way of looking for a job will be explaining your skill set. The approach of; "I don't care what bus I'm on, I just want to sit in one particular seat." So the challenge for hiring managers is to pin point exactly what is great about their incoming talent and to eventually place them where they can shine.
Fingers crossed someone tasks me with interactive concepting.
11/27/08
Grandpa got kicked out of the Library
I'm home for Thanksgiving at the snack table.
My Grandpa has volunteered for his local library for the past seven years. Apparently several months ago the library told him that all of the volunteers are being let go.
What?
They went on to tell him that the unions are pissed because the volunteers are taking their jobs. I find this ironic because this Grandfather worked for Ford his entire life. Ah unions...
So now my Grandpa, who is not good at being retired (who is?), can't look forward to his Mondays at the library.
But the worse part of this little Turkey Day snack time story is that my Grandpa was the one who volunteered to do the outbound delivery service for the library. So now all those cute little old women and house bound old OLD men don't have good ol' Grandpa to come in and listen to their stories and deliver them their books.
So now when Grandpa goes to the library and everyone yells out "Hey Lloyd!" he does it to "go be a patriot and read in the corner."
My Grandpa has volunteered for his local library for the past seven years. Apparently several months ago the library told him that all of the volunteers are being let go.
What?
They went on to tell him that the unions are pissed because the volunteers are taking their jobs. I find this ironic because this Grandfather worked for Ford his entire life. Ah unions...
So now my Grandpa, who is not good at being retired (who is?), can't look forward to his Mondays at the library.
But the worse part of this little Turkey Day snack time story is that my Grandpa was the one who volunteered to do the outbound delivery service for the library. So now all those cute little old women and house bound old OLD men don't have good ol' Grandpa to come in and listen to their stories and deliver them their books.
So now when Grandpa goes to the library and everyone yells out "Hey Lloyd!" he does it to "go be a patriot and read in the corner."
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11/17/08
Flock
Blogging from a new web browser I just downloaded.
Check it out; flock.com
So far it seems like this is the future of the web. Everything so far works great, except they aren't currently linked to Tumblr.com, which is my favorite site to blog on.
Check it out; flock.com
So far it seems like this is the future of the web. Everything so far works great, except they aren't currently linked to Tumblr.com, which is my favorite site to blog on.
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