Here are 10 tell-tale signs that your public relations career is coming to an end – and that you should be turning your thoughts to retirement.
- You not only know what a type writer is, you can remember how to change the ribbon.
- You cherish the memory of not having a cell phone, and still being able to get the job done.
- When you drove to a client meeting, you jotted down the odometer readings from your dashboard so you could get reimbursed for travel. No Mapquest or GPS.
- You remember planning press conferences when reporters actually showed up.
- You remember the days when you actually spoke to reporters on the phone and faxed press releases to the newsrooms.
- When you called a newsroom to pitch stories, they were staffed by 12 full-time people, four weekend reporters, and a sports department that worked around-the-clock.
- You know what a Rolodex is, and envied the overstuffed one of that grizzled media relations bigfoot down the hall.
- There was only 1 kind of mail. Spam was edible. Twitter was for the birds.
- Viral meant you needed to go home and get plenty of bed rest.
- When asked how long you’ve been in the field, you have to pinch yourself. Then you begin to mumble.
This wonderful material is reproduced and re-jigged from an article and comments first appearing in “10 signs PR pros should consider retiring”, written by Susan Young of Get In Front Communications. The source link is here.
