This is a pretty cool idea. It's an online contest about work. There is one very simple catch. Your entry has to be six words.

Taking Twitter-like brevity to a new extreme of economy, the Mercer consulting firm and SMITH magazine have launched a global competition, seeking user-generated content about the world of work.

Each two-week phase of the contest will focus on a different aspect of your relationship to your job, including reflections on your best boss, what inspires you and what you have learned at work.

The first phase of the contest focuses on "why I do what I do," and already has resulted in some inspired entries:

• Began a cynic, became an idealist.
• Love my co-workers. (Don’t have any.)
• I get paid to have opinions.

But we think you can do better. Here are a couple of ideas from a colleague:

• When 5 comes, I am gone.
• At least I have a window.
• My boss sits far from me.

Five-year-old SMITH, which has made a franchise out of its six-word memoirs, including its website, T-shirts and books, plans to co-publish a book with Mercer featuring the winning entries from Britain, Canada and the United States. You can submit your six-word entry at their website, and in our comment section below.

Entries submitted to the contest website will be judged by Gretchen Rubin, author of "The Happiness Project," and are eligible for prizes including an iPad 2. Entries submitted in our comment section are eligible for all the the glory of appearing on TODAY.com.

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Companies are jumping on the NCAA bracketology bandwagon in an attempt to score with customers.

If you dream of winning more than just your office pool, plenty of contests exist for the bracket-obsessed. And if college basketball isn't your thing, there's no reason why you can't embrace the marketing overload and have some madness fun.

Here are some of our favorite promotions and contests:

• If a No. 16 seed shocks the world and upsets a No. 1 seed in the second round — something that's never happened in the history of the tournament — Pizza Hut will distribute free slices at designated locations.
• Diamond Foods is offering two chances to win $10,000 with an underdog contest and a standard top-seed bracket.
• The Consumerist is running a bracket-style contest for readers to select the Worst Company in America. There are no prizes, but you it might be smart to avoid the "winner."
• Reese's is sponsoring a "Pick the Perfect Play" contest on the NCAA website. The winner will win a trip to the 2012 tournament and will get a chance to shoot for $1 million.
• Betty Crocker launched the Betty Bracket, a single-elimination contest where consumers can vote for their favorite of 64 game-day recipes, many inspired by the top college basketball hometowns.
• Domino's Pizza created a Facebook page where pizza lovers can vote for their favorite style. Sixteen pizzas will enter and only one will win.
• Applebee's and ESPN's Round by Round Pick 'Em game lets players make selections for the most immediate round — and accumulate points along the way. The winner will receive a trip to ESPN's headquarters.
• T.G.I. Friday's has a special menu and is promoting game-watching parties and food and drink specials.
• UPS is promoting a "Print Madness" deal for cheaper color prints.

If you think your bracket picks are good enough, you can win cash the old-fashioned way: betting. For a longer roundup of contests, click here.