Archive for February, 2009
This is a re-post from the archives of CareerLifeXRoads.
The original article appeared in November of 2007.
That’s hardly a “news break,” but this morning I noticed one more way in which the Internet is shaking up the “regular order of things” — “Cyber Monday.” Retailers have for some time called the Friday after Thanksgiving — claiming it to be “the biggest shopping day of the year.” Watchers of our economy look at the figures for “Black Friday” (as it is called) and can predict whether we are in a recession or an expanding economy. So much of our economy revolves around our propensity to BUY BUY BUY at this time of year. Thus, “Black Friday” is indeed an important economic indicator.
I finally got around to seeing Body of Lies, the Russell Crowe-Leonardo DiCaprio thriller from last summer. I never got the opportunity to see it in theaters, though I tried … multiple times. Unfortunately, it was in and out of theaters so fast that I’ve had to sit and wait patiently for it to come out on video. Finally, I was able to download the video via iTunes and watched it Monday night.
I was talking with my dad the other day, and he was reflecting back on his long career at Coca Cola. He’s been working there for several years, and can remember almost every advertising campaign the company has launched.
When I was younger, cell phones were a big deal. And I mean “big” as in they were huge and incredibly rare unless you were a lawyer, doctor, or pimp. When my family finally got into the cell phone market (one of my parents is in medicine 
), we had two separate phones. What’s the point of having just one if there’s no one to call. It came in handy on Boy Scout trips when someone needed to be picked up and as a just-in-case-we-get-lost on family vacations.
Last week, I was out shopping with my mom. We were talking a lot about the economy, jobs, banking, and generally “serious” topics. At one point in the conversation, she was about to say something really vital. Really groundbreaking. Really important.