[thelist] Bring your daughter to work day

that's tough... two jobs ago i got all the daughters dumped on me 
because the parents thought putting them with the 22-year-old 
webmaster would be fun for them... i was young, but not *that* 
young...

what i did was surf to their favorite sites and describe how things 
worked... it didn't matter that i didn't know *exactly* how they 
implemented it, but i talked about the database, how data was 
stored, where it was stored, how people put it all together, who 
probably did what, how the page reacted when they visited, why it 
remembered them, even how to 'hack' the image directory if 
directory browsing was still enabled, etc...

sounds boring, and it is, but when you show them how their favorite 
stuff probably works, they might find it interesting...  think about all 
those star trek fans who buy the floor plans of imaginary space 
ships... people are interested in knowing how their favorite stuff 
works...

and while you're at it, avoid showing them the boring, mundane, 
trivial work you do (whether or not it is is irrelvent, it will be to them 
since they don't know or care about your company or its mission 
statement, etc.)...

that help at all?

> From: "Ewing, Christopher" <CEwing@sscinc.com>
>
> We are having a bring your daughter to work day later on this month. 
> I've been approached by our HR staff to give a little talk to the
> collected daughters about the Internet and what I do in my role as
> corporate web-guy.
> 
> Any suggestions on how I can make this appealling and interesting for
> a group of 7-14 old girls?