Is Anybody Out There?

I’m sitting here this morning by the fire with a cup of coffee taking it easy and doing a little surfing on my semi new iPad (after all it is my birthday). One thing led to another and I ended up diving in to one of the professional networking sites I belong to. Have you ever just meandered through one of those sites checking out the historical details of the participants?

I noticed there’s a new jargon associated with work experience. It’s seems that the more obscure you can make what it is you have exactly done the better – have you noticed that? Everybody is entrepreneurial , a developer, a coordinator, strategic, a launcher, good at team stuff, motivational, a communicator, and my new favorite, a synergy leverager. WTH does all this BS even mean?

I guess it’s another example of the influence the cottage industry turned keeper of the gate of actually doing something, “marketing & communications”, has come to have. Are we to believe that all you really have to do is figure out a way wrap things up in shiny words and then the ground work has been laid for things to magically accomplished – the heavy lifting has been done? If that is so then the notion of actually walking the talk has evaporated in to a mysterious irritating cloud that floats over what used to be a community of folks who actually made stuff that could be touched and took effort to lift.

There, I feel better.