Welcome to the paradigm shift for 21st century full-time job descriptions.
21st century jobs need old skills disguised as new. 21st century has full-time jobs, but the job duties are many. Even when the job duties are many, the job descriptions must be accommodated to a Twitter-send.
Yes there are many job descriptions like that. When I see the sentences getting shorter by day, text-ing codes increasing exponentially by day, the day will soon arrive when the entire job description need to be Twitter-ed!
My new full-time job description: FC, SM, WS, NB & CS!
One of my good friends (a good friend of mine: even though grammatically correct, I was advised this was an archaic usage) sends emails with abbreviations. I see already the text-ing lingo slowly creeping into email lingo. When you extrapolate this to other forms of communications, job descriptions of 21st century is not very far away.
I am hoping that my full-time job will last at least next couple of weeks. Yes, with all that hiring and firing going on (with or without recession), even the employment duration is getting shorter by day. Wait! I am not painting a gloomy picture here. There are few other things that are on the rise – all job related. Obesity, longevity, distractions, splits of all kinds – relationships, families, and, even nations. Where is the new corporate social responsibility?
Back to my full-time job description. In 20th century lingo FC means: Fix all the broken stuff around the house, and, clean all the mess that painters, plumbers, masons, delivery & installation personnel leave behind after they finish their 19th century job duties. What the heck! I have stopped asking people around. I know the answer I am going to get – welcome to India. What non-sense! Is this a sign of building nation?
Okay let me Fix the broken stuff. All the broken windows measure the same – good. Wait. Be sure to measure all the window glass panes. Measure the glass that needs to be cut. Huh! The differences are enormous.
Okay let me clean the stuff around the house. Is there someone out there to pick them up? No. Even the guy who comes in a truck with a big loud-speaker announcement to pick up the dry waste, picks and chooses what he wants and leaves the rest behind. Where to dump them? I was almost tempted to do as advised by the housemaid – just throw them out in the front. Is that what i see everywhere when I go out for a walk? You bet!
Back to my other full-time job duties: WS means: wait for the delivery to arrive and supervise the installation. FC is prerequisite. SM means: Sort and Move the stuff left behind by every installer and repairer, WS is a prerequisite. NB means: Negotiate everything you Buy. CS means: cook and serve. NB is a prerequisite.
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(enough is enough!)