Entries Tagged as ‘Career’

July 30, 2010

Worth 1,000 Words

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Recently a client request came through my office for an illustrator that does real time drawings of meetings. The idea behind the concept is that written notes are more apt to be biased and meaning distorted than if an artist sketches the conversation. This was a [...]

April 14, 2010

You get what you pay for

In a down market like the one that we have been experiencing for the last year and a half, it’s easy to understand why businesses are watching every penny.  I do it when I go shopping – why wouldn’t a marketing manager or CEO? But lately I have been surprised by the number of business [...]

April 4, 2010

When life hands you lemons…

Make Lemonade. Do yourself a favor and take 35 minutes to watch this documentary called Lemonade that chronicles the big things that former ad agency employees were able to do once they were given the gift of losing their job. During this recession, I have watched fellow colleagues get the pink slip. I have watched [...]

March 2, 2010

Obsolescence

Two weeks ago, I attended a retirement luncheon for a co-worker. While I was busy grabbing a sub sandwich and slice of cake, I overheard the retiree talking to some others about how he first met the CEO of our company thirty years ago making books. Knowing that I work in interactive marketing where 99% [...]

December 8, 2009

Another day, another dime…

I usually try to avoid The Office, Dilbert or any other form of entertainment that is so painfully similar to my everyday office experiences that it cannot be funny. Then I started reading the Clients from Hell blog and found that sometimes these sorts of things can be humorous. Today, they posted a Dilbert cartoon: [...]

June 9, 2009

When I Grow Up I Wanna Work in Advertising

This video is a few years old, but it’s hilarious.

May 11, 2009

Why Tweets aren’t enough

I’ll admit I’ve been sucked into the Twitter world. So much so, that I have to limit my time on it to once every few hours. Hey, some people get coffee breaks or cigarette breaks… I get Twitter breaks. I started using TweetDeck, which is an application that allows you to organize, search and mark [...]

February 2, 2009

Island Reef Job – Vote for Nikki

Have you heard about the Best Job in the World yet? Queensland Australia is accepting applications for an Island Caretaker. The six-month contract is based on luxurious Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef. It’s a live-in position and key responsibilities include exploring the islands of the Great Barrier Reef to discover what the area [...]