I really had no idea which career would best fit my overall interests, personality, and motivations, until I found a little test that I really appreciated. One year I was able to take a personality test that was based on the research of Carl Jung (usually pronounced ‘Young.’ I say usually because sometimes I dip […]

I regularly talk to people at work, on the internet, and in person. They all seem to think that wherever they’re at, it’s pretty much where they’re going to be for life. Sure, they could see maybe a lateral move to a different company or industry, but they don’t think that they are going to […]

Maybe I’m just looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, but I like to think this world is fair. I like to think that human beings are mature, have good common sense, and like to treat the people they work with an amount of understanding and fairness that everyone should have. I believe this should […]

When I was taking some of the upper level engineering courses back in my college days, I remember swapping files back and forth via USB. I remember those horrible times of having 18 different versions of every Excel spreadsheet, Microsoft Project file, and Word document from start to finish of the project. You want to […]

This has been a relatively new revelation for me in my side business adventure. I’m greatly interested in leveraging everything I have to up my sidewages. Let it be known that every little tip I can get to more effectively do things with a limited amount of time and resources that I have highly piques […]

Not too long ago, I thought I was too old to do anything more with my life professionally. I thought I had kind of hit a glass ceiling of growth and performance in my engineering endeavors in the space industry. This was especially true after the space shuttles were retired; I wasn’t really sure where […]

The first couple of years of my business were done pretty nilly-willy. Sure, I had kind of a overview understanding of what I needed to get done and how to get it done, but I didn’t have a repeatable process in place. After some time, I decided to create and implement standard operating procedures for […]

Not too long ago, I started to realize that I could turn the resources that I have an abundance of into the resources that I’m lacking. Andy Kessler in his book “Eat People” brought this point home and it really stuck with me. The same is true whether you’re an entrepreneur, a business owner, or […]

Not too long ago I was searching around on Monster.com and Indeed.com for positions that use an electrical engineering degree but weren’t necessarily the “lab coat in the basement” type technical person only. I’m highly interested in technical sales and marketing, but I wasn’t sure how to make the bridge from a project engineer, which […]