an illustrated guide to the 9-5 grind: by ashley parrish // editor in chief of dailycandy
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Employment n. The condition of having paid work. The 9-to-5. The daily grind.TRANSCRIPT
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