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Miriam Young:
why
my brain has a website
Once upon a time When I was a young girl, the world was a simpler place. Or so it seemed. People had jobs with titles that were easy to explain. Roles and boundaries were clearly defined. Girls wanted to be ballerinas and boys wanted to drive fire engines. And whether or not you got to pursue your dream, once you set out on a career path it was pretty much a straight road all the way to retirement.  Your social status was defined by your job title and the car you drove.
The way you dressed told everybody which style of music you liked. And
nominating your style was easy because each band was classified within a
distinctive genre.Then the music started to get mixed up, styles were fused and new crossover genres were named. Clothing and hairstyles were mixed and matched. Body-piercing went from being freaky to mass-market. And on the work front, multi-tasking came to the fore as a standard. Having original ideas became cool. Regimented management levels started to melt. Getting ahead meant demonstrating the potential to  have the
next big idea, not resting on the laurels of previous triumphs. Survival
of the fittest replaced the 'job for life'.Or maybe things had always been that way. And I had simply grown up. And then, somebody invented the internet Talk about breaking down the barriers. With information and ideas circumnavigating the planet way quicker than I can start my laptop, and opinions and definitions being formed and deconstructed upon the click of a mouse (by next year that phrase will probably be as redundant as VHS), the world and all we thought we knew about it are changing, shall we say, very fast. It's no longer relevant for me to say "I am a writer" or "I am a salesperson" or "I am a publicist" because the work I do makes use of all these skills and more. I'm not even sure about saying "I come from England" because it's that many years since I lived there. The definitions portrayed by our professional titles, working roles, dress codes and musical tastes are all blurred. Yes, but why does my brain have its own website?  My brain has learned to do so many useful things that presenting them in a traditional CV doesn't do it justice. A list of job titles and employers too easily masks the more relevant lists of skills and task experiences. This website allows potential employers much easier navigation through my brain's capabilities. My brain powers everything I do, whether it's thinking about the words to write on this page, hitting the keys that type them, enabling me to cycle to the shop to buy more tea, or motivating me to run a marathon. In honour of that, I have bestowed my brain its very own website. Please feel free to look around inside my brain and discover how it can help you to get a job done well. So I can earn some money to buy more tea. And running shoes. Oh, and by the way I couldn't resist putting this in here somewhere. My brain has a MENSA qualifying IQ of 133. That's in the top 2% of the population.  |
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