Marketing Meeting from Heck?
Today was our marketing department’s annual all-afternoon-I-can’t-believe-there-were-no-almonds meeting with our ad agency. There were no nuts to eat. I was disappointed. My “Red Wine” diet allows for NO sugar and very few simple carbs. So although I appreciated the great soup and sandwich provided (I ate the insides of the sandwich), I would have liked some nuts. To think we are a healthcare organization and we had sugar for treats. Oh well. We make up for it in the amount of alcohol employees are expected to consume.
Here are my observations and highlights from the meeting, in no particular order:
- The board room at the ad agency was very hot. Luckily, the best looking dude in the room brought around cold bottled water at one of the breaks, which I immediately rolled all over my face. Such a gentleman.
- I am a nerd. I am fine with that. Somehow, I want to shift my career from twenty-five years of journals, direct mail, television, radio, and public relations to 100% ONLINE.
- I got to spend five uninterrupted minutes in the kitchen with the woman from the ad agency whom I’ve had a crush on since the day I first met her. Mormon. Single. Young enough to be my daughter. Crap. But hey; when I am around her I remember I am alive and will maybe someday start dating again. Maybe. And she is a nerd. BIG plus.
- Why does my boss continually look to me for answers or approval in meetings? Why didn’t we anticipate that the new women on our team would be bored? Why couldn’t we have covered everything in two hours instead of four and a half?
- The funnest part of the meeting was when I posted a Twitter message halfway through the meeting, knowing one of my colleagues from the agency would see it immediately. Piqued his interest. We sent text messages back and forth for the remainder of the meeting. I wish I could text faster. My eleven year old is much better at that.
- Overall, I feel very good about my marketing skills. Now I just need to get the powers-that-be to let me change my job function so that I focus on interesting things, rather than the things that I can do in my sleep. But that might be too threatening for some people.
So, Monday will come and I will go to work and try to do a good job. And a job it is. I have always had a career, but earlier this year it became a job. The marketing meeting from heck will have served its purpose, and in some small way made me re-evaluate my career priorities, made me realize that there is still a little bit of lust in this middle aged heart, and finally, reminded me that friends are found in the strangest of places, where like minds can appreciate the oddities of life.
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