So a friend asked me a question that I thought
was worth a blog entry.
“As a PUMA employee, are you nudged to compete/be active?”
Short answer is no. Perhaps at some companies it would be more,
but at PUMA we (well I should say ‘they’) are proud to be a lifestyle brand
too. That attracts many employees who
have null interest in sports and the company is okay with that, and even
encourages that. At the same time
though, there is still a good crowd of people who like sports a lot, and if you
hang out with those people, that becomes a bigger focus in life. People always warn that if you hang out with
the wrong crowd you’ll end up on drugs and an alcoholic, but it runs other ways
too. If you hang out with the athletes,
you’re a lot more likely to find yourself competing. In my particular case, in addition to the
people I hang out with, my research on running shoes has triggered a
fascination with running and running shoes.
Running isn’t just breathing hard now, but rather a study of efficiency,
strength, and durability. That keeps it
much more interesting, as do my running buddies of course.
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