Monday, April 13, 2009

Do you do Powerpoint?


While visiting my parents for the weekend I ran into a lot of neighbors and family friends who I haven't seen in a while. One minute into conversation they all asked how work was or if I had to go back to work on Monday. Welllll...apparently my parents haven't notified the locals that the only job I'm doing is trying to name every cast member of the 21 seasons of Real World. After notifying everyone that I am "permanently on vacation" and letting them know that I've been that way for 8 weeks, many of them asked bizarre questions that I know are a direct result of the Today show pieces they have seen about how to find a job in a recession. Keeping in mind that we are talking about the 50+ generation, a common question (my parents asked this as well) was "Can you use the Internet to find a job?", I told them "no, the Internet was just a fad, newspapers are all the rage now and I can't afford to buy one". But my favorite was definitely, "Do you know how to use powerpoint?", this question really intrigued me so I enthusiastically would answer "Yes!" hoping they knew of some awesome job where I get paid handsomely to add clip art to a slide and make sure all the bullets line up. But sadly that response was followed by "oh oh thats good, thats very important." I'm fairly confident that none of those people have a clue what powerpoint is because if they did they would know that its about as archaic and useless as Lotus Notes. But on that note, if anyone knows of a job where "powerpoint" is the only requirement please let me know, I'm excellent at making intersecting circles and shading. 

3 comments:

  1. That is a blatant lie. You have a lot of trouble with the shading.

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  2. You should combine your power point talents with your real world knowledge...create an animated slide show of drunken hookups. Possible title for your business card, "Technology for the Real World."

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  3. Ah "adults." Endless sources of useless wisdom. I was recently told by a senior that I really should by more domestic as I just sit around the house and don't do anything all day. I.E. raise an infant, run a blog and hustle for freelance writing gigs. Nice. Maybe I should look for that Powerpoint gig so I'm "doing" something. Ah ha.

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