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The Blackberry Mistake

No thanks. I don't know if you have the same perception as this, but when I was in college I always thought it would be cool to be working for a company and having a Blackberry and laptop with me all of the time. It was probably started by watching one of those Sprint or Verizon commercials where the business guys are at some street cafe in Europe and looking cool with their suits, phones, and computers.

Working is not that cool. I don't ever want to be those guys. I leave my laptop at work, and don't ever want a smartphone or other type of device that routes my work email to me wherever I am. I like leaving that email at a desk in an office building for 8 hours each day 5 days a week. That's where it belongs.

Now, if it was my personal email that would be a different story, but it is not. Managing your time at work, so that it is not necessary to need or want to check your work related emails is a skill that is very important to me. I'm not perfect and sign on remotely every now and then to check on projects, but I'm working at bringing the number of times this occurs to zero.

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