There’s a saying about how a person’s knowledge of a subject is a mile wide and an inch deep. I say that my knowledge is generally a mile wide and a foot deep, because I am fortunate enough to retain information on a broad range of subjects. Not enough to get me on Jeopardy (not that I even want to go on), but enough that I know a little about a very many subjects.
So I was getting into a discussion with some people on a friend’s Facebook page (I’m totally intending to show them the full Meryl debater; I just set the hook and will be reeling in the lines sometime tonight), and I started thinking about my work experience.
I have worked for nearly every kind of company you can think of. I’ve worked for small mom and pop shops. I’ve worked for Fortune 500 companies, including a Fortune 50 company. I’ve been hourly. I’ve been salaried. I’ve been a contractor. I’ve gone temp-to-perm. I’ve been self-employed. I’ve worked in the public sector. I’ve worked in the private sector. I’ve worked for a private sector company that gets most of its work from government contracts. I’ve worked for temporary agencies. I’ve worked for family-owned businesses owned by my own family members. I’ve done just about everything but janitorial work—no, wait, I forgot. One of my jobs included mopping floors and cleaning the bathrooms (the rock climbing gym). Hell, I was even a dog washer in a grooming shop back when I was nineteen years old and living in Tacoma with my cousin to see if I liked the area enough to go to U of Seattle (I didn’t).
It occurs to me that I have more business experience, by far, than the current president of the United States.
Yes, but you have no strings attached to “spooky-dude”!
And anyway I don’t think calling you Pinocchio would be fitting. :-)
Meryl, anybody with any business experience has more business experience than the president. That’s one thing, but he doesn’t have many advisers…few, if any…who have, so he’s not getting advice from people who know what they’re talking about.
Of course, the president and those around him don’t see it that way. They’re graduates of elite universities, they’re smarter than the rest of us, and they don’t need experience because their intelligence is enough.
With the results you see. Apparently fawning over the Muslim world and apoligizing for our sins, including the imaginary ones, hasn’t won them over. Curious…Obama’s charisma didn’t seem to take.