Quota

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.


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