Roost: Has the Internet made you smarter or just more ADD?
Max
· 1 year ago
I think you're right Derek. I'm spending probably 90% of my time working on the computer. I can't afford keeping track of all the blogging, twittering etc, but I noticed I learned how to tune out everything that surrounds me - all the noise, co-workers etc. I think I even mastered it, but now I'm finding it not always helping me especially home with the family... just because I have something on my mind I don't hear people asking me things 3 times in a row... they think I ignore them, but I don't just hear it... When I tuned out into my work, sometimes I'm trying to get back really quickly just to confirm that I heard someone and I usually say something like - "Ok. I'll do it in a minute." But then I never do it and I catch myself that I even don't know what I was supposed to do... I can drive in a car and never remember the rout that I chose to get to the office... what I've seen while driving etc.... I can drive with my wife and never say a word just because a thought about work can tune me completely out of a real world... this is crazy, it's pisses me off and a lot of people around me. I never had an ADD or anything like this in my life, but this line of work really made me comfortable as far as isolating myself from the real world and sometimes it's pretty hard to get back.
Linsey
· 1 year ago
Am I spending more time behind a computer?
Yes, but I think that it's not simplistic. Most of my marketing is done via the internet. Servicing my clients, following up on showings, touching base with related services are all via my computer.
For me, that is great news. As a mother of 3 kids, I can work when it works for me which is in odd hours for some people.
I also social network and blog. Yes it's time. But so is reading the paper, going to seminars, board meetings, etc. Yet, I'm networking from my home in a very real and suprisingly down to earth kind of way. And I've gotten business from it in my 3 short months of doing it - my husband quickly silenced so thank you very much! :)
You can fight it or you can embrace it. Either way, it's growing and changing and I want to be at the forefront of the changes.
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Yes, but I think that it's not simplistic. Most of my marketing is done via the internet. Servicing my clients, following up on showings, touching base with related services are all via my computer.
For me, that is great news. As a mother of 3 kids, I can work when it works for me which is in odd hours for some people.
I also social network and blog. Yes it's time. But so is reading the paper, going to seminars, board meetings, etc. Yet, I'm networking from my home in a very real and suprisingly down to earth kind of way. And I've gotten business from it in my 3 short months of doing it - my husband quickly silenced so thank you very much! :)
You can fight it or you can embrace it. Either way, it's growing and changing and I want to be at the forefront of the changes.