For the past decade or so, I've noticed that more and more art directors I work with (the young ones) have names like Chad. Feel free to add to the list.
While that's fine when a guy named Chad is thirty or so, I wonder what his experience will be like when he's my age (56). I can't imagine a 56 year-old guy named Chad. It sounds, well, foppish. Will he be taken seriously?
What's wrong with conventional names like Bill, or Bob? Those are solid, timeless names.
For awhile when I was in my twenties, I tried to get people to call me "Richard." After awhile, though, that seemed pretentious, so I just went back to "Dick."
But "Chad?"