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Anyone here speak Asian?

OK, I know I said that my next post would be about design, but I’m on vacation here and so trying not to think too hard.  Also, this was too good to pass up.

The following is from a job posting on the USAJobs.gov site (the clearinghouse website for all Federal jobs).

Look at selective factors number 1:

That’s right people!  If you want this job you MUST speak read and write in FLUENT ASIAN!

And people say Federal workers are lazy - look at the demanding criteria they must meet just to get hired.

June 14th, 2009
Posted by Paul in Humor | No Comments »  

Back to Blog

It has obviously been quite some time since I’ve made regular posts.  Partly this was a result of the chaos that is the last semester of grad school, and partly this was intentional rhetorical silence while I quested for a job.

And now it’s all done - school is all over, my friends are all going their seperate ways.  I finished my thesis, graduated, accepted a job offer.

I remember reading years ago the end-of-school post that Dan Saffer wrote when he finished the program here at CMU.  I don’t remember eactly what he said, but it was something along these lines: I’ve learned more than I ever imagined, made friends I’ll keep for the rest of my life, and just generally am far happier with where I am now compared to two years ago.  This is all as true for me as it was for him, perhaps more because I was not a designer when I came here, and I very much am now.

Of my colleagues, two are headed for the bay, quite a few for New York, one to Australia, several will stay in Pittsburgh, and I alone am heading off to Chicago.  Funny that after all of this I find myself headed back to the city I grew up in - doing so was not in my original plans.  However, I received an offer for a stellar job as a senior interaction designer at Motorola, and so am off to work in the downtown Chicago design office starting next month (I’m really excited!).

Goodbye everyone!  I’ll miss all of you.  It’s been a great time and you’re a wonderful bunch of designers that I’ve been honored to work with and learn from over the past two years.

In other news, I plan to start blogging more regularly again.  I won’t be able to talk about and show off my work now that I’m leaving the educational world, but I can still speak abstractly about design to my heart’s content.  And with that I’ll sign off on the personal notes and promise that my next post will be about design (and happen in the next couple of days).

June 8th, 2009
Posted by Paul in CMU | No Comments »