Man at Bar: The acid test is whether you take any pleasure in responding to the question "What do you do?" I can't bear it.

--Metropolitan

Meaningful ... vacations.

Man, Fast Company is chock-full of great stuff. Here's a link to an article on do-gooder vacations:

http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2007/03/volunteer-vacations-for-professionals.html?partner=rss

happy 4th!

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

--Benjamin Franklin

Fast cities

Fast Company writes about fast cities -- those "cauldrons of creativity where the most important ideas and the organizations of tomorrow are centered. They attract the best and brightest. They are great places to work and live."

Fast cities have:

1. Opportunity.

2. Innovation.

3. Energy. This is my favorite. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"Finally, Fast Cities have energy, that ethereal thing that happens when creative people collect in one place. The indicators can seem obscure: number of ethnic restaurants, or the ratio of live-music lovers to cable-TV subscribers. But they point to environments where fresh thinking stimulates action and, by the way, attracts new talent in a virtuous cycle of creativity."

Energy makes a city alive with possibilities, opportunities -- fueling creativity.


http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-fast-cities-intro.html?partner=rss

Who am I and why am I writing this?

I am a twentysomething just a few years out of school and looking to create a career that pays the bills AND means something to me. Not sure yet where I'm going, but I hope that keeping the blog will help me get there.