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  • Odd Correlation

    Odd Correlation

    When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

    Who would think there would be a correlation between our first names and the professions we choose. Under the covers, most people like themselves and somehow navigate to work proffssions similar to what their first name is.

    Research suggests a subtle correlation between first names and career choices, often termed nominative determinism, where people may gravitate toward professions matching their name. Examples include dentists named Dennis or Denise, or lawyers named Lawrence, driven by implicit egotism—an unconscious preference for things associating with oneself.

    I understand that for last names. We have last names such as Miller and Barber and in German Mueller and Sitzpinkler.

    So as a five-year-old everyone called me, Mark. so I guess that was destined to get lost in the supermarket.

    Or mark the paper which would make me a teacher

    Or Mark a paper which would make me an artist

    Or maybe I’m off the Mark as my real first name is Kenneth.

    

  • Most Five Year Olds Want To Be Six

    Most Five Year Olds Want To Be Six

    When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

    I don’t know the answer but given who I was I imagine I wanted to get on the road and go somewhere.

    I would listen to to the nearby highway and wonder where they were headed. I wanted to go there as well.

    I don’t think I thought much about working. I did enjoy the idea of playing baseball as kids we played baseball all the time. While falling asleep at night I had pretend baseball games rolling around in my head. For some reason, I always included the Star-Spangled Banner. I loved that song as a kid. I think the reason I liked it was a baseball game came next.

  • Find all the unused acronyms -Part 8

    Find all the unused acronyms -Part 8

    What’s something most people don’t understand?

    This Diatribe

    There are so many things that people don’t understand, including myself. I could write my graduate thesis on this, but for now I’m going to concentrate on the last hour in my life.

    At The Car Dealership

    By the last hour in my life, I’m talking this morning and I’ll get to the last hour of my life a little later. This post most people won’t understand. Maybe when I read it tomorrow I won’t either.

    I just got back from the car dealership. Many people don’t understand that most every business has the bottom line of maximize shareholder wealth. They are in the business of making as much money as possible.

    Nitrogen instead Of Air

    The dealership tried to sell me putting nitrogen in the tires. There are pros and cons to that and by all means, I didn’t understand it until I researched it. Businesses prey on our lack of understanding.

    The Last Hour of Life

    Who knows where we go when we die. I certainly do not. It is a concept I cannot rap my head around and I certainly don’t understand it. I do understand clearly that I don’t know. I have faith in that.

    Life Long Learning

    We describe ourselves as lifelong learners. And I get that. I want to master German and learn it well but what I most want to do is understand when people are talking to me in another language.

    But the one thing I do understand is the fact that the more we know, is the more we know we don’t know.

  • Find all the unused acronyms -Part 7

    Find all the unused acronyms -Part 7

    How has technology changed your job?

    My job has always been technology. So every day I worked technology changed my job.

    This question is so broad and all encompassing. It’s almost impossible to answer.

    Even outside of work

    • Does anyone go from point A to point B without using some form of electronic maps.
    • My four-year-old grandson knows how to use Siri or Google or some form of help
    •  if I type in the words, Constantino frozen almond sauce into a search engine I will get ads for it even though it’s not a real product
    • Every single run I do as a map, my average pace and how my hair looked
    • Everybody knows my credit score
    • Our birdfeeder has a camera on it, and I can watch every bird land on it

    That’s not even inside my work.

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    Trigger Alert -Boring Post