Comments on: Hi, My Name is Joe and I’m a ‘Knowledge Worker’ http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/02/08/hi-my-name-is-joe-and-im-a-knowledge-worker/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jim McGee http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/02/08/hi-my-name-is-joe-and-im-a-knowledge-worker/comment-page-1/#comment-146104 Jim McGee Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:37:05 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/02/08/hi-my-name-is-joe-and-im-a-knowledge-worker/#comment-146104 I figure if you can't explain what you do to your mother, chances are you're a knowledge worker. I've come to the point where I find it more useful to speak in terms of knowledge work rather than knowledge worker. It's easier to point at particular tasks and activities and agree that they constitute knowledge work than it is to agree on what the threshold might be between "true" knowledge worker and some poor "Joe" (or "Jim") who happens to be doing knowledge work at the moment. I figure if you can’t explain what you do to your mother, chances are you’re a knowledge worker.

I’ve come to the point where I find it more useful to speak in terms of knowledge work rather than knowledge worker. It’s easier to point at particular tasks and activities and agree that they constitute knowledge work than it is to agree on what the threshold might be between “true” knowledge worker and some poor “Joe” (or “Jim”) who happens to be doing knowledge work at the moment.

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