A former UVa Computer Science professor Randy Pausch recently passed away. Randy, who had moved to Carnegie Mellon seven years ago, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told he had three to six months to live. His “Last Lecture” embodies a passion for life and happiness that is rare in today’s western world.
Randy delivers this uplifting lecture. I don’t think it’s worth a summary; you have to watch the whole thing. Find some time this weekend to watch it. It is amazing.
A recent study conducted on CareerBuilder found that 1 in 5 workers regularly attend after-work drinks with c0-workers. What do they do there? Most commonly, they bad-mouth each other, kiss each other and drink too much. Big surprise anyone?
Unfortunately for you Type A’s, 85% of those attending said that the happy hours did not help them get closer to a higher up position. The survey did not question those who slept with their boss.
The truth is most of you go to work happy hours because you are lonely and want to bond with coworkers. My guess is this is not common practice in Charlottesville because most companies are so small.
