I'm definitely hit or miss when it comes to the frequency of my blog posts, and September was surely a miss. But here we are on the last day of the month and I refuse to let it end without a word or two.
The momentum on the job hunt so far has not picked up the way I had planned. I have applied to two opportunities, both temporary gigs. That should demonstrate some progress; previously I questioned the value of incurring the expense to move for a job meant to last only six months. It's still tough to overlook that practicality, but I'm developing a more open mind.
I put that open mind to use this week designing a workout. I'm a fitness enthusiast, and I sometimes devote too much energy in that direction. I often think that I would thrive in a fitness archive. I imagine collections of photographs and film from various workout programs (audio, too, because exercise programs used to air on radio, from what I understand), research on fitness trends, personal papers of fitness professionals, and even artifacts, such as equipment, including those gadgets seen on late-night infomercials. What an interesting archive that would be, to me.
It's amazing to imagine all of the stuff, for lack of a better term, that a company, let alone an entire profession, accumulates during its history. Let's take one exercise-related company, such as Beach Body, of Turbo Jam and P90X fame. Think about the materials Beach Body generates: financial records, inter-office communication, advertising, customer service emails, mail, documented phones calls, etc. Someone has to make sense of it, and depending upon the size of the company, a whole department is likely devoted to developing a program to keep it in check. While this usually falls into records management territory, records management is a cousin to archival administration. And I wouldn't mind crossing those family lines. After all, there is something called the records life-cycle, and at one point on that cycle, records become inactive and then archived. It's all relative.
And this is just another fantasy of what I might someday like to do as an information professional.
Hey! I met my September blog post obligation.
Check.
