Where We Worked: Here’s The Summary
This week a surprising number of Canadian bloggers from every quadrant demonstrated that they’re pretty good sports, and cheerfully participated in our Working Life Meme. It was a fascinating exercise for all kinds of reasons - but before waxing philosophical, I thought I’d gather together some of the Blogger Work Bios in one location so the terminally nosy, like me, can explore them easily. They are listed below, by either blogger pseudonym or blog title, depending on which I know.
There are actually a couple of hundred respondents, but these are the folks closest to this blog, one way or the other. I’ll add more directly to this post if you pass them along.
Raphael Alexander, Unambiguously Ambidextrous
The Anchoress
April Reign
Arwen (Bad With Titles)
balbulican, Stageleft
Michael Bates (The Batesline)
Beijing York (Resettle THIS)
Blind Man With a Pistol
Erik Buchanan (The Broken Quill)
Candace (Waking Up on Planet X)
Canuck Attitude
Celestial Junk
Chrystal Ocean (Challenging the Commonplace)
Chuckercanuck
Marc Collins
Jay Currie
Darcey (Dust My Broom)
deBeauxOs (Dammit, Janet)
Brad Dillman, The Rational Number
Dirk
Dr. Dawg
Dr. Prole(A Creative Revolution)
Dustbury.com
DVS (Lifting Autumn Fur)
Dymaxion World
Edward Michael George
Fern Hill (Dammit Janet)
Mark Francis (Section 15)
Frank Frink (A Creative Revolution)
GDKitty (Hope and Onions)
Halls of Macademia
The Happy Homemaker
Impolitical
Robert Jago (A Dime A Dozen)
Jim Bobby
JJ, Unrepentant Old Hippie
Jan Johnstone (JanfromtheBruce)
Just Another Willy Loman
Lulu (Canadian Cynic)
Marginalized Action Dinosaur
Kate McMillan (Small Dead Animals)
Nastyboy
Olaf (The Prairie Wrangler)
Pale (A Creative Revolution)
Damian Penny (Daimnation)
Rational Reasons
Red Tory
Reverend Paperboy (The Woodshed)
Saskboy (Abandoned Stuff)
Chet Scoville (Vanity Press)
Kathy Shaidle (Five Feet of Fury)
Skdadl (Peace, order and good government, eh?)
Jennifer Smith (Runesmith)
Stageleft
Bruce Stewart
Stubble Jumping Redneck
Thoughts Aloud
Throbbin
Tim (TABaker)
Vanderleun, American Digest
Wayne
Wideye
Woman at Mile 0
Xanthippa
I’d be curious to hear what YOU’VE noticed in perusing all these – what surprised you, and what common patterns do you see?
Well, as Beijing York noted, it is a dandy community building exercise. Very clever. And good on ya.
Common patterns? Seems it took most of us a bit of time to figure out what we were about.
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I was surprised by how normal it is to have tried all kinds of different things on for size in addition to having an actual career. I was also surprised at the variety — people jump from white-collar to blue-collar, from accounting to the arts, etc. without a ripple.
Obviously the “get out of school, get a job and keep at it til you retire” thing is the exception, not the rule, unlike the pre-boomer generation.
This speaks to a lot of issues — the changing economy, the changing nature of work itself, and changing attitudes towards it. Interesting.
I find it interesting how we have all had some pretty common jobs – stocking shelves, delivering papers, various forms of farm work.
I also notice that those who are ‘left’ seem to have had a lot of jobs, while those who are ‘right’ seem to have a much shorter list.
Interesting.
I always thought my weird “crappy unskilled labour generalist to consulting” career path was an anomaly. At least among bloggers, it seems to be a pattern.
Did I miss Christmas? cause if I did I am in deep doggy doo doo….
The last two posts before me say Dec 25 8:42 and 8:53 am respectively. My computer says its 7:56 am…..The church across the street does look pretty quiet….oh gawd..was I taken by aliens and my clocks frozen?
And if I haven’t missed it Merry Christmas everyone – or even belatedly…I think I still have a turkey to cook and eat. Unless I already cooked it, ate it, suffered horrible food poisoning and have lost all sense of time…no…more like it was aliens – I have a blood type aliens prefer.
Nobody tagged me – so I didn’t do the excercise.
I also noticed that there seemed to be a lot of diversity or eclecticism within most individual lists.
Also saw what Mike spotted – longer lists (and more variety) along the left side as opposed to the right.
And, finally — Mr. Harper please note – I see a whole lot of “ordinary Canadians who work hard, pay their taxes and play by the rules” (at least I do assume the last two items) regardless of political ideology or party affiliation.
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Thanks for starting this balbulican. And belated holiday wishes to you and all who visit.
I think it’s pretty obvious that many started working early in life — paper routes, baby sitting, mowing lawns and shoveling driveways. It also seems that many of us were pretty adaptable at finding work, any kind of work, to get by through the lean times. So much for elitism among creative workers, eh
I also notice that those who are ‘left’ seem to have had a lot of jobs, while those who are ‘right’ seem to have a much shorter list.
I’d blow *that* theory outta the water
Well, Jeez, lad, don’t be coy. You’re Tagged!
MW – “Nobody tagged me – so I didn’t do the excercise.
Consider yourself tagged.
Ron,
That was my general observation given the list Balby put out. You may be one of the righties that has a lot of jobs and there may be a few lefties with a few jobs, but given the dataset, that is the exception, not the general rule.
I await you amd Meaghan’s lists…