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Social Networks, should I or should I not?

I know peoples who don’t use social networks at all. They like their identity or life to be private. That’s their own thing, every one has their own opinion about what’s good to say or tell and what’s good to use or not.

I myself fully embrace social networks. Well I do to some extend. All the information I post there are normally public stuff. I sometime put my personal phone number. As I don’t really care because it’s publicly available from my phone company website. I say some stuff that I find interesting, that could probably be of some interest to some people. If I have something private, I normally just don’t write it on the web. That’s it. Plain and simple as that.

Some social networks helps me a lot. Some of those helps me find working contract. Some helps me stay in touch with people, others, I’m just a peep who find what other people are saying interesting. It’s all a mater of context.

But one thing I find quite important, I do register on every social networks that I can for one simple reason. I put flags, just like the United States did on the moon. I register an account, it might be dormant as I have no use for this network. But one thing is for sure, this account is mine and nobody can claim it. Nobody can create an account with my public infos and say that they are the real me.

That’s it plain and simple, I make sure that my presence is personally taken care of. I make sure that someone can’t go ahead and pass as myself to my friends and family.

I protect my online personality. (well that’s what I think I’m doing, as always, I might be wrong)

Things you should know…

I know them, but I still have trouble with them. I do get burn by them once in a while. That said, here are some rules of work / life. I may edit this post once in a while if I find something else that I need to learn or know.

This kind of list or post is some kind of popular on the Internet at the moment. I’m writing this for myself. You may find them interesting or not.

1 - Don’t f*ck with company equipments.

This means, don’t use company equipment for your own use. Don’t install anything, don’t go onto personal websites, don’t install software that might get you in trouble, you may think it won’t, but it can always be used against you. I personally know this.

Someone said to me, it’s not because you can that you should.

Get a nice intelligent cellphone, get a data plan, use it to get your email, use it to browse to some website that may or may not be in the company interest or approved. Don’t waste your time on your cellphone, but it can really be handy. Take a break from work, eat lunch alone and then you can use all that time on personal task.

2 - Wait at least a year to get fully involved with your new company perks.

You never know what can happen. 7 months isn’t long enough, take a full year to look a your options. Sometime, going back may cost a lot and may take time.I’ve tested this twice. Got almost in trouble twice, had to work hard to get back to a personal state once and lost some precious time the other time.

3 - Don’t use a company cellphone as your own.

This is true even if they don’t mind at the beginning or they tell you that you can. They can always change their mind. This happen to me once and it goes back to rule #1. Don’t use company equipment as your own.

4 - Not everything about yourself or about stuff from work is good to tell.

You never know how it will be interpreted and it may well be use against you. Take time to think everything through.

5 - People with who you work are not your friends.

Even if they seem to, you only need to be friendly in a work environment. Work people becomes friends when you see each other outside of work. Take time to evaluate the situation and find out if they are truly friends. (hard to do) 

6 - People come and go in your life time.

I think we meet interesting people every day, we make friends and they are with you for a journey that can last from a simple week to years. Take whatever you need from those relation. They do the same with you. Don’t be mad if they go, you had a great time, that is all, savour this time.

7 - Don’t give too much time to people who suck your life out.

Once in a while we meet people that just plain suck your life and get you down. We don’t have enough time in our life to dedicate some to them. Let them go, it will always be better this way. One exception, family, you don’t chose them. Your only option is to see the problematic one only once in a while, that is as much as you can take.

8 - Don’t let uncontrollable sh*t get you down.

It’s uncontrollable, don’t waste your time with it. Concentrate your energy on the things you control, like getting out of this bad mojo. They say, it’s not how you got down, but how you get back up that’s important. Remember this bs quote!  ;-)  There is some truth to it.

9 - Follow your felling and don’t regret anything.

It’s not when you’re on your death bed that you’ll be able to do those things. Get out there, don’t look back!  ;-)  I had someone close who died. He told me that he never regretted any thing he’d done. That’s great! I wish I’ll be able to say the same.

10 - Don’t waste your health.

You only have one. Take care of it. That’s what I’ll be giving the most attention from now on. That’s probably the hardest thing.

Leaving 2011 behind and welcoming 2012

I’ve read my last year resolution and I’ve done none of them. This is really too bad. 

2011 wasn’t what I could say a good year. I was working for myself, had an easy gig and it was prematurely ended by the contractor. They found someone to take the job full time on their payroll. I can’t blame them, but that got me into finding a new job. 

Got the best job that I could’ve wish for and kind of blowed that one. Well I got bitten (way more correct to say) by people that I trusted. I just hope that this was some kind of a lesson that I needed to learn. For the record, we’ll meet again and tables will turn. 

And that’s how I entered December. 

I also wasn’t myself. A lot a things happened and I wasn’t happy as I should have been. This didn’t help my temper and it had a bad overcast on my family life.  

But the year did end on a good note. I found a new gig. I’ll be again, working for myself in 2012. I’ve found a contract starting January 9. 

Now looking back at myself, I haven’t been too great. I’ve lost some weight and gained almost all of it back. Started eating slow carb, stop eating junk food, worked on my health but stop almost everything beginning working at my last job. I’m kind of back to square one. 

So this time around, let’s begin on the right track. I need to clear me mind, find the best in every situation. Don’t try to arrange anything, ride the wave cause sometime, it knows exactly where to go and how to get there. 

This year, I’ll eat the best as I never eaten. That way, I’ll be more healthy. I’ll need to clear my mind. It should come as I clear my body. 

The rest should come as I begin this new journey. 

I welcome you 2012. Let’s make this year the best since 2009. Because, the last 2 years took a toll on my life and now that I see all of this I can finally take care of it. 

StarWars posters

I think these posters are amazing..! I need to find myself one.

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