Prosperish Love Triangle

July 20, 2009 | Posted by JO

This is my inagural post.   This blog exists for three simple reasons:

1) I believe the journey to prosperity is a messy affair, and never quite works like the books say.  There are stumbles, embarrassments and bouts of occasional diarrhea.  There are also times when I have epiphanies, moments of exhilaration, bliss, complete loss of time, space and self.   There is tremendous satisfaction to be gained from the journey.  It’s definitely worth it.  Most people won’t even try.   If you want to begin, at least we’ll get our lumps together as we travel down this road.

2)  I like helping people.  I’ve have experiences to share that might make a dramatic difference to you and your level of prosperity.   My recent day job (human resources manager) unfortunately put me in a position where I had to tell  over a 1,000 people they no longer had a job…while I was doing that it become my personal mission in life to help as many folks as I could.  And it worked – by meeting with people and talking about their resume, how to network, or how to get out of debt, even how to apply for unemployment, I managed to get nearly half of those 1,000 people into new jobs or opportunities.   And even though I don’t have to lay people off anymore, I still love helping people.

3)  This is a labor of love — what I count on is offering up some suggestions, advice, anything that I’ve picked up during my 15 years of career, work and human resources experience that might make a difference for you.    When I listen to someone describe how their work has become depressing, demoralizing or disgusting,  I happily jump in to share what I know about careers, financial advice, surviving a layoff or starting a business.  People are at least amused by what I have to say.   I like to entertain.  I will continue to offer up my knowledge so long as someone out there is still reading.

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