{"id":5223,"date":"2013-06-13T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T16:45:00","slug":"between-the-lines-so-what-do-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2013\/06\/between-the-lines-so-what-do-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: So What Do You Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mad<\/a>Last Saturday I attended a fundraiser for a local hospital. The hospital is a client of the engineering firm my significant other works for and since she\u2019s heavily involved in a major building project for them and her firm was a sponsor of that evening\u2019s cocktail hour, attendance was mandatory.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, I had a better time than I thought I would. I also found myself answering the inevitable question, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d<\/p>\n

I sometimes joke that one of the biggest conversation killers at a party is when I used to answer that question by saying, \u201cI\u2019m a writer.\u201d Their next question, \u201cWhat do you write about?\u201d And I reply, \u201cThe office technology industry.\u201d \u00a0That would usually be when the conversation comes to a standstill.<\/p>\n

As one of the last true journalists covering the office technology imaging industry, I don\u2019t care when that happens anymore. I take a lot of pride in that, especially when one sees what\u2019s happened to print publications over the past decade. Sometimes I consider myself one of the luckiest people on the face of the earth to still be standing after 27 years in the industry. And that\u2019s what I told people who asked me what I did last Saturday night: I\u2019m one of the few true journalists still covering the office technology space and I love what I do, writing about office technology, services and software, and the people who sell it.<\/p>\n

And for those of you reading who are still earning a living in this space whether you\u2019re a dealer, an OEM or a solutions or services provider, I hope you can answer that question in social situations as easily as I can now without killing the conversation. After all, many of you are still standing after all these years.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to give me a holler if you\u2019ve got a good story for me to cover.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading and please support our sponsors.<\/p>\n

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Last Saturday I attended a fundraiser for a local hospital. The hospital is a client of the engineering firm my significant other works for and since she\u2019s heavily involved in a major building project for them and her firm was a sponsor of that evening\u2019s cocktail hour, attendance was mandatory. Surprisingly, I had a better time than I thought I would. I also found myself answering the inevitable question, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d I sometimes joke that one of the biggest conversation killers at a party is when I used to answer that question by saying, \u201cI\u2019m a writer.\u201d Their next question, \u201cWhat do you write about?\u201d And I reply, \u201cThe office technology industry.\u201d \u00a0That would usually be when the conversation comes to a standstill. As one of the last true journalists covering the office technology imaging industry, I don\u2019t care when that happens anymore. I take a lot of pride in that, especially when one sees what\u2019s happened to print publications over the past decade. Sometimes I consider myself one of the luckiest people on the face of the earth to still be standing after 27 years in the industry. And that\u2019s what I told people who asked me what I did last Saturday night: I\u2019m one of the few true journalists still covering the office technology space and I love what I do, writing about office technology, services and software, and the people who sell it. And for those of you reading who are still earning a living in this space whether you\u2019re a dealer, an OEM or a solutions or services provider, I hope you can answer that question in social situations as easily as I can now without killing the conversation. After all, many of you are still standing after all these years. Don\u2019t forget to give me a holler if you\u2019ve got a good story for me to cover. Thanks for reading and please support our sponsors. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[116,328,343,388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11540,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/11540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}