I have a friend, Madison, who wants to transition from working in the private sector into the public sector, specifically the education sector. We’ve been talking about it a bunch as I had made that transition several years ago. In my case, I got lucky. I had completed my masters…

I was at the local grocery store when I ran into an old colleague who lived in town. We exchanged pleasantries and chit-chatted about my new position teaching for the last year. I told him how much I enjoyed the job and how it was challenging in a good way…

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…

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…

I 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…

When 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…

I 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…

What’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%…