Tania, I wanted to highlight and reshare so many parts of this that I couldn't choose, so I'll share the entirety of this brief (haha!). Like you, my brain draws blanks when it comes face to face with legalese or businessese, or marketingblabla. Actually, it even goes all pixelated when I see any maths to be done, which has been quite embarrassing during my 63 years on this planet! Acronyms amuse me, the French love them, and use them with flourish.
Actually, my brain can't even process many of the plots of complicated series, such as Succession (also, I got fed up with their lack of vocabulary, replaced by constant swearing. I'm not against swearing, and swear quite well and quite often myself, but this took the entire packet of chocolate digestives and then some. This failure to understand TV shows that people love leaves me flummoxed, but I guess our brains just work differently.
Anyway, I enjoyed this a lot, Tania. Because, well, snap!
I still don’t know how it came about but for twenty years I worked in that world of bafflement and acronyms. Thankfully they allowed me to make up my own job title: Futurist.
Now that I could get behind - or rather in front of - as I trotted off down endless paths of ‘what does the future hold?’ 😊xx
I usually feel a bit panicky and lightheaded when faced with something to read like a legal document that I just do not understand. I find with people and their jobs I don’t understand that if I ask what they are working on that is exciting at the moment then I usually get somewhere. Not always though 😬🙈
For me, the only use for AI is discovering the meaning of the profusion of acronyms I am subjected to daily, which in turn justifies the need for smart phones which enables me to look them up. I remember when “cell phones” were just phones, and a way to stay connected, but I soon learned how intrusive they became when I was golfing on my day off, and had to let groups after group pass me on the course because I was trying to solve a customer's issue.
Some days I'm thankful for my mobile phone, Google, and social media, but more often than not I realize how all of these messed up an idyllic life.
I will say this, without these technologies I would never have discovered Postcards from Scotland. Being lost in a wilderness of electronic media does allow for the discovery of the occasional oasis or three.
So much bafflement … my least favorite new title = influencer. I paused before using the word ‘job’, it really seems to be all about ‘titles’ - in my mind of many years, job denotes work. It seems now that many jobs do not involve any evidence of work. I shall manage my hedge today 🙃
This just made me laugh. And speak to my phone “yes, yes, that is sooo right” as if you were sitting there saying it to ME!
My cousin. We grew up more like brother and sister (as with all cousins on mom’s side). He is a genius. Truly. And was this smart very young. He loved reading and writing. Words. He had wanted to be a writer of great novels. Life turns and he became an attorney (barrister). Like you, i believe all the really good barristers have to be excellent writers first.
And, omg, LinkedIn…. What IS it? It’s completely foreign to me.
I now find myself to be just a bit less odd after reading this. There are others like me.
Do you understand "Bitcoin"? I too am clueless about a product manager. And all things financial, like "Hedge fund manager," which has nothing to do with the amount of money I need to tend to gardening my wild lot and make hedges.
Tania, I wanted to highlight and reshare so many parts of this that I couldn't choose, so I'll share the entirety of this brief (haha!). Like you, my brain draws blanks when it comes face to face with legalese or businessese, or marketingblabla. Actually, it even goes all pixelated when I see any maths to be done, which has been quite embarrassing during my 63 years on this planet! Acronyms amuse me, the French love them, and use them with flourish.
Actually, my brain can't even process many of the plots of complicated series, such as Succession (also, I got fed up with their lack of vocabulary, replaced by constant swearing. I'm not against swearing, and swear quite well and quite often myself, but this took the entire packet of chocolate digestives and then some. This failure to understand TV shows that people love leaves me flummoxed, but I guess our brains just work differently.
Anyway, I enjoyed this a lot, Tania. Because, well, snap!
Love ,
Cesca
I am smiling so much, I can’t even tell you. I feel I have a comrade in arms! ☺️
I know! Me too. And I have a red mare. And a red gelding, too!
How glorious!
I know, me too! And I have a red mare!!! And a red gelding, too!
Haha. Oh Tania, I loved this so much.
I still don’t know how it came about but for twenty years I worked in that world of bafflement and acronyms. Thankfully they allowed me to make up my own job title: Futurist.
Now that I could get behind - or rather in front of - as I trotted off down endless paths of ‘what does the future hold?’ 😊xx
I am in awe of Futurist You!🌟
I usually feel a bit panicky and lightheaded when faced with something to read like a legal document that I just do not understand. I find with people and their jobs I don’t understand that if I ask what they are working on that is exciting at the moment then I usually get somewhere. Not always though 😬🙈
I like the idea of asking what is exciting them at the moment. I'm going to pinch that for social occasions!
For me, the only use for AI is discovering the meaning of the profusion of acronyms I am subjected to daily, which in turn justifies the need for smart phones which enables me to look them up. I remember when “cell phones” were just phones, and a way to stay connected, but I soon learned how intrusive they became when I was golfing on my day off, and had to let groups after group pass me on the course because I was trying to solve a customer's issue.
Some days I'm thankful for my mobile phone, Google, and social media, but more often than not I realize how all of these messed up an idyllic life.
I will say this, without these technologies I would never have discovered Postcards from Scotland. Being lost in a wilderness of electronic media does allow for the discovery of the occasional oasis or three.
That is very kind. I vividly remember old telephones too.☺️
So much bafflement … my least favorite new title = influencer. I paused before using the word ‘job’, it really seems to be all about ‘titles’ - in my mind of many years, job denotes work. It seems now that many jobs do not involve any evidence of work. I shall manage my hedge today 🙃
No, making a sentence dance is DEFINITELY not nothing.
That's making me laugh and smile.
This just made me laugh. And speak to my phone “yes, yes, that is sooo right” as if you were sitting there saying it to ME!
My cousin. We grew up more like brother and sister (as with all cousins on mom’s side). He is a genius. Truly. And was this smart very young. He loved reading and writing. Words. He had wanted to be a writer of great novels. Life turns and he became an attorney (barrister). Like you, i believe all the really good barristers have to be excellent writers first.
And, omg, LinkedIn…. What IS it? It’s completely foreign to me.
I now find myself to be just a bit less odd after reading this. There are others like me.
I love this!
I AM drawing owls. And it IS totally understandable. Thank GOD.
I am in gratitude for the understandable drawing of the owls.
Do you understand "Bitcoin"? I too am clueless about a product manager. And all things financial, like "Hedge fund manager," which has nothing to do with the amount of money I need to tend to gardening my wild lot and make hedges.
No clue about bitcoin! Not even a small gleam. Hedge fund manager should definitely be to do with actual hedges.
I did spend several years working with a raft of product managers! Til I floated off in another direction
You may be the only person I know who knows what they do! Don't tell me. I want to preserve the mystery.