Another day, another letter – have you ever thought about your dream job?  A recent article collected a lot of data on dream jobs worldwide.  The list led us to do some of our research, and because it's 2023, we asked A.I. to weigh in as well.  Innovation follows dream jobs, and the transformation in one city in Columbia, South America, seems like a dream.  The Super Bowl is on the calendar, the ads are already on the teaser reels, and they do not disappoint. 

A website called Remitly pulled together global search data to determine dream jobs worldwide.  In the first section, it's the top jobs worldwide; what stands out is how high the search volume for the top two spots is.  A pilot is the leading job search, accounting for more than 20% of all the searches in the top 20 positions.  A step below that is Writer, and those two jobs are almost 50% of all the searches. 

Next, the data shows the most popular search by country.  Pilot leads in the U.S. and Canada, but Mexico and most Central and South America want to be Influencers and YouTubers.  That information alone makes us want to dig deeper; it makes for a good conversation.  Other notables; China, dietician?  Saudi Arabia, Poet? Afghanistan, Developer?  There isn't a lot on this list we would have predicted, so we asked ChatGPT the same question.

We used a couple A.I. tools; one of them used the source article from Remitly, and another pulled data from Indeed, a well-known career website.  The Indeed data pull was for the U.S., and the job listings for dream jobs seemed more intuitive.  The top five jobs from Indeed include:

Axios delivered a story today about Medellin, a city in Columbia, South America, which went from the most dangerous city on the globe in the 90s to the world's most innovative city in 2013.  The story is both innovative and inspirational.  What do you do in a mountainous part of a country with a poor population with few transportation options to get to jobs?  Think way outside the box and develop an aerial cable car system similar to those at fancy ski resorts.

It takes guts and tremendous optimism to look at a situation like Medellin's in the 90s and think there is any way out.  In 2004 the MetroCable system opened in Medellin and was said to have cut a two-hour commute from the mountains to work into 30 minutes.  The ability to get the people to work slowly began building up a community's sense of worth.  With the communities buy-in, the transformation expanded from access to improvements in the city.  Pride in Medellin grew, and new schools, libraries, and public parks started to develop.  What began as an experiment in transportation has led to a generational change for the people of Medellin.

Our friends at 1440 linked us to a story in CNET with some of the Super Bowl ads that will be on display this weekend during the most-watched annual sporting event in the U.S.  With this preview, you won't need to tell everyone at your Super Bowl party to "Shut-up!” so you can hear the ads.  Here are a few notables:

Pop Corners: Breaking Bad reunion

Hellmann's: Who's in the fridge?

Workday: Rock star        

The ad vids are enough to check out the article; in another related article, Morning Brew reports that Fox sold out of Super Bowl ad spots with an average cost of a 30-second spot at $6 million.  Wholly Guacomoly!

CNBC has a fascinating look at corporate names and how many are mispronounced.  Many names are international, although Nike seems fussy.  Porsche reminded us of the Friends episode in the 90s; Joey, for reasons we can't remember, was watching somebody's Porsche and corrected the pronunciation of the car.  As Joey said, "it's Porsche (por-sha), Porsche!"

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