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Ahh yes… Unions
I’ve known a fair share of people that have worked with or for a union. One brother in law, my old man (he loves the nickname), his dad, and four of his brothers all worked for unions at a paper mill at a given point. My dad also worked for a teachers union. My brother…
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Always busy
I wish that i could say that the resIults of my stress tests (as i’ll call them) were surprising, but they weren’t. I know i’m stressed. I have a pregnant wife that is having a difficult pregnancy, work has asked me to work more because we’re behind, i have two kids under the age of…
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…But was it worth it?
By the time i finished my undergrad i had a couple of good friends. After graduation several of us ended up at the some company and a couple stayed on and worked on the Masters degree in our field. One such friend had interned with the company during grad school and managed to get hired…
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Dynamics can be fun?
In thinking back on the various training courses that I’ve taken, I have to exclude the death by PDF type courses that my company loves to give. In short, it’s not fun to learn by reading a PDF of a software test plan. I think that i’ll identify a course i took in the Navy…
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Few, but Interesting Interviews
Most of my jobs before the Navy (no interview, just standards and tests) were for people i knew or were related to people i knew so they weren’t complicated and for the most part i just showed up for the job. I’d say that my first real interview didn’t happen until I was 27 and…
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So much for a Job Analysis
I’ll start this off by saying for a good portion of my working career, i’ve been in a position that was fairly generically defined, sometimes to my advantage. When you work on a farm, pretty much anything is fair game, especially when it’s the grandparents of a good friend. I’ve hauled pipe in a bean…
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My take on employee Thoughts
Bear with me on this journey that is a “blog” as this is my first. For this weeks thoughts we had a chance to read through the “2020 Fortune Best Companies to Work for”. I decided to randomly scroll through the list and see what I found. The people that worked for Capital One were…
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