masterwordsmith-unplugged

It might be time for you to change your job if...

1. Your resume' looks like a phone book
2. The client says your rates are too high, and you blush
3. You introduce yourself to your next door neighbors ... again
4. Your spouse flies home (to your hotel) for the weekend
5. You use the word "paradigm" in a sentence
6. You use the word "granularity" in a sentence
7. You use the word "robust" in a sentence
8. Someone mentions a 7:00 meeting and you say, "AM or PM?"
9. You cry when your PC won't start
10. You carry on a 5 minute conversation about data warehousing, then you ask what it means
11. When other people speak of vacations in warm sunny places, you get a lost look on your face, cock your head to one side like a dog hearing a whistle, and say, "...my last vacation was, um, it was, ah, um, er ...."
12. You have a day off, and you call work because you miss it
13. You write a work plan for your weekends
14. Someone asks you what you do for a living, and you can't answer the question
15. Before starting the car, you insist on telling everyone where the emergency exits are
16. Before stopping the car, you insist that everyone stay seated until the fasten seatbelts sign is off
17. You call CTG (computer support group) with a support question just for the entertainment of hearing their answer
18. A good dinner consists of vending machine snacks
19. A good lunch consists of vending machine snacks
20. You insist that your friends submit time sheets at the end of the month so you can see what you missed
21. You can tell the hotel staff what their room-rate policy is
22. You believe that e-mail is as good as a conversation can get
23. Instant coffee tastes good
24. You can remember 15 client and hotel phone numbers, but you get stumped when asked for your home number
25. You file more state income tax returns than Microsoft has trademarks
26. You've been staying in the same hotel, you instinctively call it "home"
27. The hotel staff recognizes you and gives you the same room every week (this is not always good)
28. The room service staff feels free to nag and fight with you because they know you'll be back next week anyway
29. You know all the favorite radio stations of all the valet parking guys
30. You get more calls from the hotel staff to see if you're OK than you do from your friends
31. Then you realize the hotel staff are your friends
32. You can list 32 (and counting) reasons why you have been a consultant for too long.

More funnies on this topic will be posted tomorrow. Have a nice day!