Job hunting and the whole process afterward until getting hired is a skill. You should be focused on mastering this skill if you are still in the system like most of us. With a recession, no one wants to think about it but job hunting may come up sooner rather than later for many of …
It is possible to carry on a conversation where the topic is something you do not agree on. At Thanksgiving and Christmas, we avoid talking about politics, religion, and anything that has been in the news in the last 6 months. Stick to safe subjects. How sad is it that we have to avoid certain …
Someone on Twitter asked recently what you need to tell your college-bound kid about how to be an adult besides taking responsibility. I decided to break down some of my ideas for college-age kids into simple rule-of-thumb type answers. If you don’t know what job you want from your degree, don’t get it. A degree …
College is the standard path for American kids today. It is a given that you should graduate from high school and transition directly into a four-year college program. Kids assume that is where they are headed and that their choices don’t begin until it comes time to decide which college. Teachers operate off of the …
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” …
Everyone says “Love isn’t a feeling” “Its a choice” That terrifies me Only relationship I’ve ever had has been long term And real But I’ve always been good at smart decisions Logical choices What if this thing Me and her Is just the logical choice Not fate or stars or magic No more butterflies or …
Do you think the people who came before us would be disappointed? Going beyond the impressive people who history remembers like Aristole, or Lewis and Clark. What about the average ones? The standard guy who gathered firewood, or the weaver girl who made clothes for the local market. What about the Indian brave leading the …
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Leaders are the ones who make the news. The ones who made the big plays, the big decisions, the power moves that changed the world, saved the day, won the game. It is always the leaders who are the talk of the town. Natural Born Some people are natural-born leaders. They step up, walk first, …
I turned 27 at the end of May. It was a big milestone for me. Most folks figure out too late that life is short. I figured it out early. I was having a crisis about the shortness of life back in high school. Fretting about how everything seemed planned out for me and how …
Reason for College I find myself questioning the reason for college often. I will be the first to admit I am biased. My time in college was not one of the movie scenes. For me, college was depression and struggle and getting lost in thousands upon thousands of kids while coming to terms with the …