“Critical thinker” –I like that. Besides the class its self was made for discource, not a quid pro quo with higher education and a political bastion. Hypocrisy abounds us Don.

The definition of Multi-tasking derives from computers. I wonder who makes up these buzz-words?

“Conflicting advice is all around us. In the end we all must follow our hearts and instincts. Then our individuality will show.”

–Great advice, I think you have the writing chops my friend. This should be in sign form in every “HR” office.

You writing this to me proves you have good communication skills, and you are a Team Player for sharing this information with every-one. You must be a great multi-tasker because you wrote this while thinking and navigating the wordpress comment format. See, that’s how easy it is to rationalize bunk wording. Congratulations Chris you are now qualified for 95% of the jobs out there.

As I said in my post, shouldn’t we all be on the same page?

Another wonderful post. I am starting to think you missed your calling and should be writing full time. Your posts are always insightful and thought provoking, and this one did not disappoint.

I think most of us have recently read the article listing the top ten phrases to NOT have in your resume. Yet you will see some of these same phrases, or derivatives of them, listed in job postings as “required’. Phrases like “team player” and “good communicator” come to mind.

I also recently read what a fallacy “multi-tasking” is. Since we are not computers we can’t multi-task. We don’t even task-switch well. It used to drive me crazy when I would be deep in thought on a project at work and someone would interrupt me. Not only did I lose the length of the interruption, but it could take me 5-15 minutes to mentally get back to where I had been. Multi-tasking is nothing more than self imposed interruption. It ruins our efficiency and our effectiveness, and everyone loses.

Conflicting advice is all around us. In the end we all must follow our hearts and instincts. Then our individuality will show.

You’re right Dorothy dosn’t resemble Sister McNamara in the slightest. Hopefully her advice will better then shut-up and get back in that corner.

LOL, I was trying to differentiate my-self in school as well. They misunderstood it for rabblerousing. I would love to know your thoughts on resumes, because I’ve gotten VAST opinions on my own. Some people after reading it want $40 to cure all my resume ills, then I go from semantics to sarcastic. Thanks for the offer, I need it.

You have a great post your self.

You’re doing quite well at this whole “blogging” thing! Hey, I don’t think Dorothy is anything like Sister McNamara so I believe it’ll be safe to stay after school!