The Lead

Posted by Matt Kucharski on February 4, 2009 at February 4, 2009 1:09 PM

I can't lay claim to this -- it's been floating around the office this week -- but it's way more true than I'd care to admit...

The Top Ten Signs You Work In Marketing...

You lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their look-to-buy ratio
You get all excited when it's Saturday so you can wear casual clothes to work
You refer to the tomatoes grown in your garden as "deliverables"
You find you really need a PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living
You regularly eat out of vending machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week
You wear gray to work instead of navy blue to make a bold fashion statement
You know the people at the airport and hotel better than your next-door neighbors
You ask your friends to "think outside the box" when making Friday night plans
You think Einstein would have been more effective had he put his ideas into a matrix
You think a "half-day" means leaving work at 5 o'clock

Others that didn't make the top ten but get honorable mention (these are my own):

You conducted your last performance review via Twitter
Your last team outing centered around a Strategic Selling role-playing scenario
You read "Market-Led Strategic Change" to your kids as a bedtime story
You chose to go with the Labradoodle rather than the Labrador because it "differentiated you" from the other neighbors

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