Now THAT's a Career ...

Interesting conversation I had with my wife on my way up to my parents' place about "dead-end" careers. This of course has a lot to do with the current under-employment (as opposed to unemployment) statistics here in the Philippines. It was prompted by a "help-wanted" sign in a gasoline station.

Have you ever wondered the job-description and official designation of people who push elevator buttons for you? In malls or in commercial buildings?

Elevator button pusher?

Can you imagine the kind of patience they have staying day-in day-out in that small 2x2 cubicle, going up and down every single day of the week? I'd go crazy they first week I can assure you that. You have to put up with the smell, the nausea, the claustrophobia and the whole "mundane-ness" of it all.

Then of course you do this kind of job 3 years and move on to become what? What kind of experience and additional skill sets would you have garnered as elevator button pusher to put on your resume?

I intend to get more concrete details on this if I could and interview someone the next time I go to a mall and see how they manage to keep their sanity in check.

So in the meantime, to those courageous ladies and gentlemen manning elevators at the various malls throughout Metro Manila, I salute you!

Digital Photo Experiment

Part 2 of my DSLR fiddling. Pardon me to rave a bit about photography but really it's all about finding beauty in the most mundane environment.

Just stop and look around and you'll be surprised at the stuff you find ...

More Chances to Shoot

Went to the old alma mater yesterday with the family and had the courage to take out my DSLR for a spin. Fiddled with the manual settings and got better results actually so I would probably be sticking to this setting for a while. I envy the guys who post in Flickr and I see these fantabulous shots.

Boracay is going to be the subject of more than a few photos in the next few weeks. Definitely looking forward to that.

Tone-Deaf Idol Voters

It's all wrong ... too damn wrong. And I for once agree wholeheartedly with Simon Cowell.

Either the viewers/voters have their TV volumes turned down or they are really tone-f**** deaf. My apologies for the heavy-handed language but while watching the show last week with my wife I had to slap the sofa silly when Sundance was booted out.

Or even in the week before in the toss-up between Sanjaya and AJ I still couldn't believe how this boy managed to snare more votes despite his lack of vocal talent.

Then again the fact that Antonella Barba stayed on for two weeks shouldn't be of any surprise to me anymore to the type of "discriminating" audience Idol has.

Let's watch and move on shall we ... and hope to the high heavens the voters wake up next week and boot Sanjaya out.