The Friday Five - 26.2.2021
This week's questions are in honor of engineers week, the letter e and the number 0...
1) What has been your favorite job?
If it wasn't for the money, I'd probably still be the Assistant Manager of a record/music/instrument store at the local MegaMall. My first 'serious' sales role & a crash course in HR as well, but never a dull moment & I loved most of it in hindsight
2) What did you like about it?
Apart from the Owner (who was a coke-fiend, egomaniacal smartarse with more daddy issues than sense), the staff were a fantastic bunch. We've mostly all reconnected in the last couple of years... or they've finally reconnected with me... I'm afraid to ask!
3) How can a kid become like you when they grow up?
Have firm but fair, disciplinarian parents with a touch of the hippy about them. Be neither popular, nor unpopular at school - good enough at sports but not exceptional, smart enough in class but not exceptional. Love reading - it can teach you all the other stuff you want to know. Have several attempts at keeping a small, diverse set of friends - replacing as necessary. Develop a taste for 60s-70s British humour (the Oxbridge crowd from Beyond The Fringe to the Goodies) & shape your humour along those many lines. Be musically omnivorous. Be shy, but good & entertaining company if spoken to... Above all, be patient - it gets waaaaaay better in your 20s!!!
4) What safeguards do you use to avoid mistakes?
None that have been absolutely fool/idiot-proof so far!
5) What's changed in the world that you've had a hard time keeping up with?
The shift from letters to e-mail, from conversation to text, from Journal to Facebook to Twitter. I find it strange... or maybe not... that, as communication becomes more direct & less nuanced, more brief & less detailed, that everybody is so quick to jump to the wrong conclusions & proceed direct to outrage & abuse, without asking pertinent & pointed questions to gain greater understanding first
1) What has been your favorite job?
If it wasn't for the money, I'd probably still be the Assistant Manager of a record/music/instrument store at the local MegaMall. My first 'serious' sales role & a crash course in HR as well, but never a dull moment & I loved most of it in hindsight
2) What did you like about it?
Apart from the Owner (who was a coke-fiend, egomaniacal smartarse with more daddy issues than sense), the staff were a fantastic bunch. We've mostly all reconnected in the last couple of years... or they've finally reconnected with me... I'm afraid to ask!
3) How can a kid become like you when they grow up?
Have firm but fair, disciplinarian parents with a touch of the hippy about them. Be neither popular, nor unpopular at school - good enough at sports but not exceptional, smart enough in class but not exceptional. Love reading - it can teach you all the other stuff you want to know. Have several attempts at keeping a small, diverse set of friends - replacing as necessary. Develop a taste for 60s-70s British humour (the Oxbridge crowd from Beyond The Fringe to the Goodies) & shape your humour along those many lines. Be musically omnivorous. Be shy, but good & entertaining company if spoken to... Above all, be patient - it gets waaaaaay better in your 20s!!!
4) What safeguards do you use to avoid mistakes?
None that have been absolutely fool/idiot-proof so far!
5) What's changed in the world that you've had a hard time keeping up with?
The shift from letters to e-mail, from conversation to text, from Journal to Facebook to Twitter. I find it strange... or maybe not... that, as communication becomes more direct & less nuanced, more brief & less detailed, that everybody is so quick to jump to the wrong conclusions & proceed direct to outrage & abuse, without asking pertinent & pointed questions to gain greater understanding first