“I studied architecture with paper and pencil and worked all my professional life with Autocad.”
My Dad’s words made too much sense. I also studied at the university with paper books, took notes with a pen, and used computers only to write clean and tidy essays. We used the library to research.
Only to work all my professional life with computers connected to the Internet.
I had an email address on my resume before many companies started using them. They were happy with telephones, letters, and faxes.
The business rules used to be strict, predictable, and easy to learn. Only experts had a voice. We kept things “professional” (aka impersonal) and nobody cared about our personality. Repetitive radio, newspaper, TV ads, and annoying door-to-door salespeople did the trick.
If you’re smiling and feeling nostalgia now, I feel you.
It was simple because you had to focus only on doing what you do best: your profession.
But now it feels like we need to work on our business, have a beautiful interactive website, be on every social platform under the sun, and spend our precious working time chatting with strangers online (which feels like a waste of time).
I know this too well because I was like you.