Anna Karenina

Yes, this post is about finding a job.
I was reading a blog post this week and I was reminded of the principle from Leo Tolstoy’s book, Anna Karenina.
It goes “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
If you search the principle on Wikipedia, the principle even has its own [...]

10 Ten Blogs if you’ve just been laid off

Blogs.com came out with a top ten list of blogs to read if you’ve just been laid off.  Go here to check them out.

Forgive me, but I am going to talk about myself.

This is an important post – to me.  Let me share with you a foundational philosophy of my view on life. 
I am an optimist.  Not a rose-colored-glasses optimist by any measure.  Sometimes people accuse me of being negative. I view it as being a realist.    I view it as being completely dedicated to the truth.  I [...]

When I grow up I want to be…

like Seth Godin.  When I was growing up I wanted to be what all boys wanted to be: a firefighter, the Six Million Dollar Man, a lawyer (don’t hold that against me), and a airplane pilot.  I am sure that I never said I wanted to be like Seth Godin.
Who is Seth Godin?  He’s an [...]