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Aug. 3rd, 2012 05:21 amI just woke up from one of those pointless "working" dreams. I was doing research in my sleep.
One of the actual facts researchers and I got assigned to split duties on a long-term project that involves (per usual) poking around in the employment history and financial status of very wealthy people. I am basically coming up frustrated on my end, which isn't surprising given the people in question are either so old they have decided the internet is irrelevant or so young that they're savvy enough to lock up their social media presence. I'm always startled when the people we research have a Facebook or a LinkedIn page anyway; you're a gajillionaire, why do you need a LinkedIn? Why, if you are independently wealthy, would you bother having a Facebook, the most frustrating and inefficient method of communication on the planet? (Actually that's not true. For sheer pointlessness, Tumblr has it way outclassed.)
Of course some of these people do stuff like climb mountains and run marathons under the guise of it being "fun", so clearly they are masochists.
It's always funny too when you start reading between the lines of the research and realise that the person you are researching could probably be the subject of a television drama. I still have a copy of the profile I did on a guy who I am 99% sure was a Bond-style cold war spy. Currently one of my research projects is a man who appears to need a new wife every ten to fifteen years; I think he wants one permanently set at 25-years-old. Looking at pictures of him and his various wives, especially in chronological order, is a very subtle but effective creepshow. I try not to judge the people I research most of the time, but I feel pretty comfortable judging him.
All of my team is out this week, and it is quiet in our area at the best of times but right now it's eerily so. I'll be glad when my ducklings are back on Monday.
One of the actual facts researchers and I got assigned to split duties on a long-term project that involves (per usual) poking around in the employment history and financial status of very wealthy people. I am basically coming up frustrated on my end, which isn't surprising given the people in question are either so old they have decided the internet is irrelevant or so young that they're savvy enough to lock up their social media presence. I'm always startled when the people we research have a Facebook or a LinkedIn page anyway; you're a gajillionaire, why do you need a LinkedIn? Why, if you are independently wealthy, would you bother having a Facebook, the most frustrating and inefficient method of communication on the planet? (Actually that's not true. For sheer pointlessness, Tumblr has it way outclassed.)
Of course some of these people do stuff like climb mountains and run marathons under the guise of it being "fun", so clearly they are masochists.
It's always funny too when you start reading between the lines of the research and realise that the person you are researching could probably be the subject of a television drama. I still have a copy of the profile I did on a guy who I am 99% sure was a Bond-style cold war spy. Currently one of my research projects is a man who appears to need a new wife every ten to fifteen years; I think he wants one permanently set at 25-years-old. Looking at pictures of him and his various wives, especially in chronological order, is a very subtle but effective creepshow. I try not to judge the people I research most of the time, but I feel pretty comfortable judging him.
All of my team is out this week, and it is quiet in our area at the best of times but right now it's eerily so. I'll be glad when my ducklings are back on Monday.
