A Shout-Out

Salient observations from a co-worker...

Working is Web-surfing

I, like most everyone I graduated with, started working shortly after graduation. We report to a mass of cubicles each morning where everything is just like it was the morning before. Sure, the specifics may have changed, but the general tenor remains constant. Over time we get better at our jobs but there is always that lag between when you really pick up the pace and when your boss realizes and gives you more work to fill the void. That gap is the thing we all wait for. In fact, that gap is the thing we all work for because of one simple fact:

Working is web-surfing.

We do live in a unique time. There are groundbreaking medical and technological advances made each and every day. Our political landscape, depressingly screwed up though it is, is constantly shifting. We have reached a time when it might be neat to play a part in one of these discoveries or headline-grabbing events, but the most satisfying feeling comes from breaking a story to those other twentysomethings seated around us. Of course, we didn't do any of the legwork or research, but we present the news with the smug satisfaction of the original broadcaster.