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The Candy Aisle
In August of 2009 I wrote about how I couldn’t afford to let my child choose whatever candy they wanted from the gas station because I literally only had less than $2. All of our credit cards were maxed out and we could barely make the minimum payments. It forced us to become used to…
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How to Work a Life of Purpose
What is my purpose in work? How can I find a career I love? I have been reading Hacker News for the last six months or so and a few days ago I stumbled upon a Jeff Haden piece called “Do What You Love? Screw That”. I admit, this title intrigued me. I had been…
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Pain
In business, I’ve been able to maintain my bills so far, but this week has been the closest ever. It gets scary sometimes, but I do enjoy the freedom. Seth Godin wrote recently that we’ll always have pain, so we should stop thinking that the next gig will be pain-free. It helped me realize I…
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Good Guy Greg
“It is entirely inconceivable to the world that Steve Jobs would have been given a resurrection body that is imperishable only for the purpose of being able to endure God’s wrath into eternity future. We Christians do a great unloving disservice to the world when we don’t affirm the theology of hell – the gospel…
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The End of the World
As the lighting strikes and the thunder rolls this cold, wet, December morning the darkened skies are continually ripped open and slammed shut in eerie foreboding of today’s show. There will be dandelions blooming underfoot as helio-magnetic superstorms bloom above our heads. As the ground begins to shake, hold firm to your beliefs. The time…
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The Employment Roller Coaster
Mark Thiele recently wrote an article entitled, Get ready for the coming employment roller coaster, in which he describes his perceptions of a changing career landscape where jobs not only do not last a lifetime, but where skills do not last a lifetime. Theile gives anecdotal evidence of jobs that are completely disappearing in less…
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I want to learn something new. But what?
I recently stumbled upon this on Reddit by rtheone, whom I give full credit. The only reason I’m posting this here in full is because of the fickle nature of Reddit (in that it could be deleted at any time), but I thought it should be saved for a while here. They talk about many…
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Online Career Tests and What I Found Out About Myself
I recently filled out a career test from the Navy called Life Ops and another one at CareerFitter. This is what I found out. Careers The only similarities between the Navy and the CareerFitter test were these careers: Musician Artist Writer I wouldn’t consider myself a musician now, but I was in choir through middle and high school and…
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Always Working
I’ve identified a program that’s been running in my subconscious mind that always believes there is something coming along around the bend to provide a windfall. The problem is that there is no windfall coming. I have to do the work always. ‘always working’ instead of ‘working until’ needs to be my new programmed thought.