It is no secret that I generally feel about a gazillion years old and have the deteriorating body of a fossilising gnat. Despite people often telling me that I am still in my prime, I feel about 80 most days with my creaky bones and knackered joints. That said, I have always been young in heart and mind despite not necessarily acting it at times or always showing it to people. It takes a certain level of comfort and familiarity with people to let them see anything other than my serious dinosaur side.
The second post in my dinosaur mini series, following on from 'There's a dinosaur at my desk'. Because oh wait, yes, that dinosaur is me. I have two sides to my personality. No, not in a Jekyll and Hyde kind of way, but in feeling like an ancient, decrepit dinosaur whilst managing to simultaneously behave like a giddy toddler.
It is no secret that I generally feel about a gazillion years old and have the deteriorating body of a fossilising gnat. Despite people often telling me that I am still in my prime, I feel about 80 most days with my creaky bones and knackered joints. That said, I have always been young in heart and mind despite not necessarily acting it at times or always showing it to people. It takes a certain level of comfort and familiarity with people to let them see anything other than my serious dinosaur side.
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Last week I attended a blog writing course with the inimitable Jo Watson of agoodwriteup. At the end I was presented with a dinosaur and asked to write a blog using the techniques she had presented in which I linked dinosaurs back to business somehow. I had a brief moment of ‘Hurrah! Easy, peasy, squeezy!’ (see what I did there Jo?), but then I became quite conflicted in the direction I should take. The more I thought and scribbled my scrambled musings down, the more ideas came out. All equally weird and/or random. But then I decided I liked it that way. Because, well, I can be a bit random. So anyhoo, I’ve gone all Jurassic Park and this dino theme is now turning into a mini series (of 2. For now). Here is the first. Enjoy! #Dinoblog 1: There's a dinosaur at my desk! I have to give (some) credit to my t’other half for this one, I mentioned the dinosaur blog challenge and he immediately came up with this cracking idea. In fact, no, I am going to credit the two pints he’d had at the time. He is so much more creative with a beer.
So, to get to the point. We got chatting about what dinosaurs would be like to work with? What are their workplace personalities like? How would they fit in with the modern workplace stereotypes? And my favourite thought - what would their LinkedIn profiles be like? So I have nicked the idea and ran like a starved t-rex chasing his next caveman lunch. And Graham’s not getting all the credit, because my fossilised brain is doing the rest. So let’s begin. But before we start: Beware, you need to take these as tongue in cheek. If you are not feeling the sarcasm or humour today feel free to exit this jurassic era. |
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