Long before ATMs, cash back, and debit cards, the fastest way to conduct your banking business was to go to the bank. In a building. With tellers. And greeters. When I was very little I told my mother that I wanted to be those greeters, someone who was very pretty and nicely dressed, would smile and say hello, direct you to the proper teller, and maybe give you a lollipop if you were very, very good.

The arrival of ATMs pretty much killed my dreams of bank greeter stardom, and since then I've wandered and dabbled in a lot of things, many of which were immortalized on a business card: archery instructor, gas station attendant, lifeguard, student, civil engineer, Gap sales associate, software expert and corporate suck-up. None feels like my Final Grown-Up Job, though.

Instead of figuring out what I want to be when I grow up (not that I'll know when I've reach Grown Up Status), I do know what I want to be tomorrow:
I want to be a just little bit better than today.

Maybe I'll use moo.com to design and print up some Bank Greeter business cards, though, just in case things pan out.

$25,000 Pyramid (Style) Meetings
All brainstorming sessions will be conducted in the style of this awesome (and old) game show. Example:

"Synergy! Umm...community! Cross. Functional. Team." *eyebrow wiggle*

"Ooh! Ooh! I know! Reasons we should launch a new website!?"

*BZZZT!"

"Knowledgebase."

"OOOohhh! What are "Reasons we need a new InTRAnet?"

Dingdingding!

Iron Engineer!
All clients will present their projects in the form of Iron Chef. We'll cut you a break on the price if your impression of Chairman Kaga is decent.

"Engineers! This project's secret ingredient is...FLOODPLAIN REPLICATION AND VERNAL POOL PROTECTION!" And...go!"

(in a hushed voice) "Iron Engineer Sarah is working on a 25-lot subdivision, but she's going for the cluster! That means she's going to have to produce 2 options, proving that the clustered development is the best way to use the secret ingredient."

(in an excited whisper) "...the Challenger is going for the strip mall with compact car parking. An aggressive choice for a newcomer..."

(I'll admit that this is something only consulting engineers and architects might find funny. Might being the operative word there.)

Tequila Tuesdays
Why should Friday get all the fun? I say we celebrate Tuesdays with a margarita.