Do you run toward or away opportunities that you know would require a change in your character? What I talk about here could be applied not only to job searching, but to life in general.
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You be the judge.
It’s so funny how we get to certain places on the web.
Todd and I have never met in person, but I sure hope we get to at some point.
What’s that? You want to know what picture I submitted? I didn’t have my camera with me yesterday, so I resubmitted my picture as a Home Fry Speed Demon.
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Today is National Bring Your Child to Work Day. I bet there’s a link somewhere on the internet about. Not here (yet), unfortunately.
So Keisha is with me at work. Maybe I can convince my coworker to take our picture so I can post it here. Update: My coworker is going around, taking has taken pictures of families, so expect a picture to be posted back here soon! check out the pictures!
Oh, and I have a great playlist for the next episode of the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast.
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Time for a true “journey inside my mind“…
Since the beginning of this year I have been bouncing back and forth from Cincinnati – where I live – to Dayton, where I work. That long commute has made me a “captive audience” for a lot of portable, on-demand programming (affectionately known as “podcasts”). I usually listen to music podcasts at work so that I can concentrate on my programming duties, and I like to listen to talk-type programming during the commute.
There are some programs I listen to only because I like to hear the passion in the podcasters’ voices. I could care less about the content, and in many ways, I really don’t like it at all. What I DO like, however, is the passion and excitement they convey, whether it’s from ranting about something that bugs them, or extolling the praises of something they love.
I noticed again on the commute up to work that I’d gotten distracted from the program I was listening and was thinking of my own ideas for things. It’s not that the content was boring me; au contraire mon frere! As often is the case, I heard something on one of these programs and it sparked some creativity.
My iRiver has a recorder on it, and I’ve often recorded my thoughts to capture them for later.
Where are you the most creative?
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Mike Schaffner points us to an eWeek report on a recent poll by Reuters that discussed how Blackberrys and laptops are blurring the distinction between home and work life.
He recommends the following useful techniques:
He also recommends going into your Blackberry and turning the new email notification off so that you’re not tempted to check it every time a new one arrives. The key to remember is that laptops and Blackberrys are not your jobs; instead they are tools to help you do your jobs.
Here are the comments I left:
You hit a nerve in me with this one, Mike, on a couple of levels.
- I am totally for getting information when it’s convenient for me. I consume most of my media on-demand these days. The idea of watching a program at a specific time is something I’m growing out of. The same with online media (blogs, podcasting, and the like). I’m learning to consume it on my schedule.
- Having said that, I’m also a guy who checks every email that comes in and who also spends so much of my time lately watching what’s going on with Twitter (http://twitter.com).
I have recently found out how to change the notifications for Outlook and GMail, but I could do a lot better with Twitter.
What about you?
I have updated my Blogger Profile to further delineate my super powers. In addition, I have decided to start a new blog (I know, yet another one) where I describe my professional exploits. It’s designed to be more of an online portfolio, and I write about specific projects I have worked on, with more technical details than you would find over here:Daniel Johnson, Jr.
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It’s been a few days since I posted anything here, and something just came to mind that I thought I’d share:
I recently started back to work in an office, after four months of being at home every day. I had the flexibility to take our dog for walks, which also gave me good exercise. I’d taken up these Two-Mile Weigel Walks*, as I call them, to help my lower back get healthy and to lose some weight.
Now that I’m working in an office five days per week, I don’t have that discretionary time anymore. So I got to thinking, how am I going to get the exercise I used to get? I’ve opted to do more walking to get around. My job takes me up and down a floor in our office building, and the elevator is a convenient option.
So I’m hoping that walking up and down the steps throughout my day will help me stay active. In addition, we have a membership to our YMCA, and I’m going to make time to go there every weekend.
Another thing I think I’m going to have to watch is the snacking. Every day it seems that someone has brought something into the office to share. In addition vending machines are readily available for snacking and for sodas.
Speaking of sodas, I’m going to keep on limiting my intake. When at home, I’d usually only drink coffee and water. I’m going to keep on doing this as I’m at the office.
* The walk from our home to Weigel Elementary School and back is two miles.
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