Decision making skills
I am probably the most indecisive person I know. (I say probably because I can’t decide…there are a few who might be more indecisive than me!!!) This is because it is part of my personality that I can see all sides of an issue. It is very easy for my to empathise with people and see everyone’s point of view. So I sit there dithering about what’s the most important thing to consider and trying to consider them all. Bad news for the decision-making process.
I’m TA-ing a class right now for College of Business, along with a couple of other uber-nice upperclassman. (Only the uber-nice suck-ups who want killer reference lettters apply for TA positons; it’s not like they pay.) When we have to make decisions about anything but grades, we do rock-paper-scissors. I swear its true. So now you know the truth about the quality education received by the future business leaders of Cincinnati. I wonder if executives of large corporations use the same decision-making tools?
I have decided that I am going to write all of my options for what to do when I graduate on index cards and set them up in a circle like a clock or a sundial (is a sundial a clock?) and set a game-board spinner of the type used for “Hi-ho, Cherry-o” (Speaking of which, Shannon, we need to introduce Luke and Logan to that game as soon as we are certain Logan won’t put the cherries in his mouth) in the middle, and spin it. Where ever it lands, that’s what I’ll do.
Sound like a plan? Huh? Huh? Sounds good to me.

April 25th, 2005 at 11:32 pm
Personally I’m a big fan of placing the options on a dartboard and then throwing a dart at it while blindfolded, but if you prefer the spinner, that’s a good option too.
We play paper-rock-siscors at work sometimes to decide who will have to do a certain task. It’s a tradition I started back in one of my earlier stints there, and it lived on in my absence. Another great moment for slackerology.
April 25th, 2005 at 11:37 pm
For a total slacker, you seem to have lots of great moments. I think it’s fate. And frankly, if fate is doing such a good job of steering things, why bother?
April 25th, 2005 at 11:51 pm
I don’t believe in fate! If nothing is going to happen, I have to make it, ummm, not happen.