Despite the legal risks involved, 26% of employers access social networking sites (LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, etc.) for information about employees and job candidates according to an article in Workforce Magazine.
Attorneys warn companies not to do it, but the practice appears to be growing.
“ Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.
Tucker wrote this song for you. The instrument he is playing is the “Target store metal bucket”. He also provides all the vocals for this particular piece.
Few things wake you up to the fact that your days are finite like reading your own name in an obituary.
But this isn’t the first time I’ve read my name in an obit. When I was in college, I sat in on a session that Career Services offered for students who didn’t know what to be when they grew up. One of the assignments was to write our own obituaries. This exercise was meant to force us to imagine where we wanted to be just before we died and work backwards. By doing this, you were supposed to get insight into what major to choose or whether to go to graduate school, etc.
I don’t know if I saved the obituary I wrote for myself, but I remember enough of it to say that it was quite delusional and grandiose. I imagined myself becoming a humble billionaire philanthropist who married a former Miss Georgia and died instantly in a violent car crash at the age of 75 (a very healthy 75). For some reason, I felt it was meaningful to mention that the vehicle happened to be an antique Porsche 959 supercar that I had just purchased at a charity auction.
I’m delighted to report that I am not on track to have such a shallow and egotistical obituary come to pass. But I still think it’s a worthwhile exercise.
Take a few minutes today and write your own obituary. It just might change your outlook on life.
