Sizzle Pop!
Okay, I already discussed something going on here in the net nation...actually ad nauseam...but truly, I've never felt like a hotter ticket than in July of 2005 (also my birthday month, so it's good luck all around).
I have head hunters calling me left-right-and centre. They are begging me (usually the other way around) at networking events. They are tripping over themselves to court me. They are emailing me, visiting my blog (hello there, welcome!) and finding me in other people's blog comments.
I have to admit, I knew something was brewing, but I didn't realize that I would be in such a hot position right now. I'm sure everyone else in my industry is feeling like a princess as well. We are hot hot hot!
But here's the thing about head hunters...I don't feel too flattered. They are out for the deal. I am dog meat when they don't have the demand - I experienced this first-hand for the past 5 years. So, you don't want to return my call for the past 5 years but you need me to call you back asap today? Ha. I'm pretty busy. What If I put your request on file and call you when something comes up.
Don't get me wrong, though. I want to grow my career and there are rockin' HHs out there that can help me out. These people believed in me, met with me, encouraged me, coached me, etc. when the market sucked. They will be the ones getting the big-arsed fee for the placement - which is growing exponentially right now.
This time I don't think we'll see the bubble burst. There are some real results to be mined here. Online marketing and the industry has reached that critical mass, which makes it part of the fabric of our everyday lives. Those slightly kooky pontificators who seemed too geeky to be cool and too cool to be geeky, who spent the last 5 years finding work in areas of reasonable facsimile of their passions and their training are back for good this time.
Maybe I'm just feeling bigger than life right now and tomorrow my own proverbial bubble will burst, but right now in this time, in this space I'm loving the rebirth of the Cluetrain Manifesto's mantra. I'm loving that we were all right and everyone else didn't have a clue (although I had many dark days of doubt over the past 5 years).
But now we must go forth underpromising and overdelivering so that we can maintain the momentum. Sure, we feel hot and powerful right now, but we can't lose our heads. We don't know everything. We are not 'experts'. We are just passionate about this medium that ebbs and flows and brings people closer together. We know how to converse online right now, but we can't lose site of that. We'll take the jobs where they let us blog during business hours and interact with other blogs throughout the day. And whatever new, amazing medium comes along to solipsize blogs, we'll get involved with that, too.
But we will never claim we are better (although we are allowed these brief moments of smugness because we are human) or smarter or more right (I know, I already did - oops).
This goes back to why I love online people. We'll always be a little too nice, a little too accessible, a little too acommodating. We interact everyday with thousands of others online and are constantly humbled by the plethora of talent and ideas out there. If we aren't, we are dumbasses. We know that. With all of this information available, we can't be certain about anything anymore. Even the crap I'm spewing today belongs to everyone I've geeked out with online and offline for the past 13 years...and it changes...and someone will come along and tell me I'm an asshole and he'll be right.
Yep. We're cooking with fuel. It feels like da bomb. We are being recognized for our worth (finally). But, hey, let's not forget to find this extremely flippin' hilarious. 'Cause it is.
Online geeks...welcome to the rest of your lives.
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