Well, its the end of another year and another decade so its this time of year when everyone waxes sentimental sharing some kind of “top 10″ list or holiday list. Well, now its my turn but with a twist. 2010 will begin my 3rd decade in the working world, most of which has been in the counseling, EAP, OD and wellness fields. And believe you me, a lot has changed since the early 80s. Here are some things that have changed. For those of you younger folks, these references may require an internet search.
- Tweeting was something a bird did when he said “I tawt I taw a puddy tat” . Now we are supposed to “tweet” whenever something that we think is important strikes us. A great idea when used to communicate relevant things but do we really care about every detail of someones personal life?
- A Laptop was something that your kids or grandkids sat on in order to create balance in your life and get away from work. Now its something that is our life. And you better not sit on it unless its the Toughbook. In that case, you can go beyond sitting on it and do all kinds of bad things to it. watch this but don’t try it at home.
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A Network was something you watched on a TV (if it was a big one it was 27″) and there were only four of them when I was growing up (CBS, NBC, ABC and WGN). Now a network is something you run a lot of computers on (how could that be, after all, in those days one computer took up one room). It is also something that is “social” (like we weren’t social in the 70s and 80s).
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Coaching was something you did with sports teams and usually with your kids (outside of work). Now we can coach people to be better executives, managers, healthy beings and, yes even coaches for our kids’ sports teams. Now there’s something we could really use. After all, don’t our kids need to be world class athletes in TOTALLY ORGANIZED sports. The only organization we knew about was “rock, paper, scissors”. Check out this modern variation.
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Bears and Bulls still describe upward and downward market trends but when I grew up, those trends were the same for both the Bears and the Bulls; sports teams I mean. Yes, we did have two good BEAR teams in 1985 and 2006 (but where have those lone two years gone?) and many good BULLS teams in the 90s but . . . oh well. Let’s hope that Lovie and Vinnie can create those trends again.
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Transplants were people, not body parts. Don’t get me wrong, this is wonderful but we give alot of focus on preventing rejection of the body parts so why can’t we try and do the same for people.
Well, now you can see from no. 6 that I too, have become sentimental. What can I say? It just comes with the season. So, where does this leave us? Let’s all really start over on 1/1/2010 and work to be more accepting and generous as we help our fellow man.
Our wish from Perspectives to all of you friends, colleagues, supporters and other interested parties is that you all have a happy, healthy and peaceful 2010 and new decade.
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