an illustrated guide to the 9-5 grind: by ashley parrish // editor in chief of dailycandy

Employment n. The

condition of having paid

work. The 9-to-5. The daily

grind. An illustrated guide

by Ashley Parrish, Editor-in-Chief of

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Full Time!

Phone Zit n. The recurring chin zit that results from spending too much time on the phone.

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• Hot in Herre (Nelly) was at the top of the charts.

• Eminem’s 8-Mile debuted.

• Facebook didn’t exist.

• Amazon only sold books.

• Apple had just launched the iPod.

• Cell phones looked like this

In 2002…

Yellular n. The loudness one adopts in response to bad cell-phone connection, in the misguided hope that talking louder will improve it.

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Post-Modem n. The freak out you experience when your Internet goes dead.

LESSONS LEARNED ALONG THE WAY

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FIND YOUR POINT B

… and C, and D, and

E. The hardest part

about getting from

one point to another

is knowing where

the next step is.

Mapquestionable adj. Word describing directions provided by MapQuest that somehow cause you to drive in an enormous figure eight.

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MAKE IT HAPPEN

If there is no point B,

create one. Generate

your own opportunities

by finding untapped

areas of the business that

could result in growth.

E-Maul v. To stalk someone via email.

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STAY CURIOUS

Stay on the look out for the next big (or small)

innovation.

• Be a voracious reader,

online and off.

• Network, online and off.

• Keep an ideas folder.

• Carve out time for

creativity.

• Find the pain points

iQ n. Your level of iOS device expertise or lack thereof. (She doesn’t know who Siri is? Must have a low iQ.)

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ONE MORE THING …

It’s not the right

move, unless you

are terrified. Go

ahead, scare the

crap out of

yourself.

Promotion Sickness n. The queasy feeling one gets when someone really stupid gets promoted.

THANK YOU