4 days agoMember-onlyPassion Skills: Why Should You Work For Free?I recently did some spec work on a multimedia project. It wasn’t a little bit of work. In total I probably have about 120 to 180 hours in. At the time of this writing there is a better than average chance I won’t get paid for the work. I knew…Work10 min read
Jul 25Member-onlyWhat Makes the Perfect Company?I’ve got a friend who works at a bad company. For various and sundry reasons, they don’t feel it’s the right time to make a move to a new job. Interestingly, It used to be a pretty good company. Over the years the company grew from a small outfit to…Corporate Culture11 min read
Jul 11Member-onlyThe Piece of PaperI had a friend complaining to me recently about his job hunt. This happens with some frequency because so many people know how involved I was, and sort of still am, in workforce development. Specifically, the state’s job matching system. I’ve spent uncounted hours with HR professionals, recruiters, job seekers…Education10 min read
Jun 27Member-onlyThe Job Hunting Roller CoasterWhen I was a kid I was fortunate in that My family lived in Florida. This means that we were able to take advantage of the specials available by Walt Disney world to attract locals to come in during the slower parts of the year. As a young male child…Job Hunting9 min read
Jun 13Member-onlyCross Country Considerations II: VacationsI recently went on a very unique vacation… I recently went on a very unique vacation. I went with some friends, the Bowers. More specifically, I went with my friend Don and his daughter Ginny, although we just refer to her by her nickname Gin. Initially it was just supposed…Vacation11 min read
May 30Member-onlyCross Country Considerations I: Inflation in our minimum acceptable standardsWhat’s your minimum? Is it really the minimum? It all started with one of my classic fixations. I identify a goal and fixate on it, this is who I am. As I’ve mentioned before the best description of my personality is that I’m 1st or 5th, i.e. I’m in 120%…Vacation10 min read
May 16BLM vs ALM? It’s really NLM!Bionics, Pandemics, and the No Lives Matter Movement — I think the most engaging articles that I write, at least to me, are the ones that start with a simple comment or observation that is indicative of a huge trend which I can comment on. There have been two of them that happened during the year of the pandemic…Blm10 min read
May 2A Love Letter To WiresWe were at my friends house when it happened. My son came out from his friend’s bedroom and said “I found it!” Sitting in his hands was a little black computer mouse I had bought him a few months before. He had had it for about a week and he…Wires9 min read
Apr 18Things You Need to Experience in Life to Truly Understand ThemA while ago, I wrote a bit of a high brow article all about the concept of not repeating our mistakes and really exploring why we sometimes attempt things again, even if we learned it was a bad idea. Today I’m sort of broaching that subject again from a different…Loans12 min read
Apr 4Can We Make Every Job A Government Job? (But not like that)I have a close friend who is about to turn forty. I knew her since she was in her teens, college and into her first job. She, shockingly, is still at that company nearing the 20 year mark with them. The company, like so many other private sector organizations has…Retirement9 min read