Ponderosity

[susandennis]

My manager, today, started talking about 2004 and how things are likely to change and how we will likely handle them. She's in charge of corporate communication. I'm in charge of marketing communications and we're it for the department. She's thinking we're going to need at least another person so she told me this morning that I need to be thinking about what bits and pieces of my job I want to keep and which ones I want to dump on er, share with a new person.

Interesting to think about. I basically do:

- all 'prettying' (editing of words, fixing of graphics, policing of branding) of stuff - collateral, presentations, anything that might go out to a customer.
- all web work - internal website, external website
- event coordinating
- giveaway, design, ordering, inventory

I think I'm willing to give away the event crap. That's always fraught with peril and a field of cow pies.

I think I'll keep the rest.

But I need to chew on it. It's the kind of thing that is in the pencil version of planning. If I can come up with a solid scheme , I can probably sell it cause no one else has any product at all. At the very least, I need to make sure I know what I want if anyone asks.

Maybe I should look around and see if anyone else has a part of a job I want... hmmmm

Meanwhile, there are new jobs popping up all over this neighborhood. Cray Computers has had a little shop here in Seattle, across the street actually, for a while. I have no clue what they do there but I do know they now have about 1/2 or fewer employees than they used to. But, today I discovered they are hiring like mad. Their website lists probably 15 job openings in these little offices right across the street.

The mailman says that there are more than a few businesses actively looking for employees in this very neighborhood. I like the sound of that!