Picking Passwords

“Please change your password.”

Again??  Didn’t I just do this??

With at least five unique logins at work almost daily, plus another handful of logins weekly or monthly, it feels like I’m changing passwords all the time.  And this is just at work.

But even if I were tempted to use the same password for everything at work (trust me, I’ve been tempted), it can’t be done because they all require new passwords at different intervals.  And they all have their own rules.

• No repeating characters in the same password.
• No repeating characters in the same position as a previous password for up to 6 revisions.  (For example, if I used an A in the first position of the last 6 passwords, I can’t use an A in that position for the next password.)  This one is especially annoying because not only do I have to remember all of my current passwords, I have to remember what I used the last 6 times for this program.
• Must use upper and lower case as well as at least one number.

You get it.  You’ve been there.  But let me get back to you after I think of a new password…