“No thank you,” said the woman at the door of the trailer, “my alarms have never gone off.” “We could check them,” Anna countered. “No, I have never had a fire, so no I don’t need my alarms checked,” she says as she firmly closed the door. Not every call ends up with a success story, but when they do,…
Category: Personal Growth and the Job Search
What is the Zen-Toidal State of Quantum Entanglement?
When Zen Meditation, Altoids® and Quantum Entanglement meet one arrives in the Quantumly Entangled Zen-Toidal State. I guess a breakdown of these terms and thoughts is in order. Zen is the Japanese term for the principle of dhyāna in Buddism which is the practice of meditation especially sitting meditation. The idea is to suspend all judgmental thinking and let words,…
The Truck
“Four to six weeks,” the DMV clerk said. With a catch in my breath, I ask, “Is there any way to get it sooner.” “Nope, we don’t print them here.” After the insurance company told me I will need to turn my title over if I accept their offer for the truck, I realized that I had failed to deal…
EVERYBODY IS OK! –> Now what?
“EVERYBODY IS OK!” the opening words of a Facebook post about the accident that totaled our truck and damaged our Montana fifth wheel trailer. At some point I will get the word that they are ‘totaling’ my truck. I’ll have a week of car rental and a week of repair time on the Montana, so I need to have…
Elevator Pitch
Retired Navy Chief. Aerospace engineer. Speaker, blogger, trainer and consultant. Helping veterans and others in transition is my passion. Private and public consulting, keynote speaking and interactive webinars, I continue to build my portfolio of support for veterans, engineers and young professionals. 17 years of System & Software Project Management much of it in Unmanned Aircraft Software Test Engineering with…
Reading for Professional Growth
There are many, many books that are worth your time. Let’s talk about reading for personal growth. I will tell you that I am a reader, but my reading was always fiction. Unless I was forced to do it by school or work, I wouldn’t read non-fiction. There were, of course, exceptions. In high school, I was having the social…
Networking 1
One of the most misunderstood or least understood tools in the professional growth toolbox is networking. It is not well explained in any of the writing I have seen and little or no discussion is brought to bear during most folks college career. Often it is pictured as attending business parties or luncheons and shaking peoples hands and while that…