Wednesday, January 03, 2001

The bright side

One of the surest signs that a job change or a career shift is in the works for me is the arrival on my desk of a new box of business cards. It is a practical certainty that within two weeks after I have ordered and received 500 or 1,000 new little slips of boardstock bearing my name, title, phone number, mailstop and e-mail address, for one reason or another I will no longer be employed by the company represented by the logo on the card.

I have come to look on this as positively as possible: I have not lost a job. I have gained several hundred bookmarks.