In August 2010 I quit my job as a coffee boy at Book-A-Million to volunteer full-time with the Red Cross. I thought hard about it, and it seemed like a risk worth taking. If it paid off, I’d gain valuable experience with a non-profit- one that provides disaster relief at that. In November the Public...
For over a decade now I’ve talked about running my own nonprofit organization. In 1999 I left home for Auburn University to study business administration so I could one day pursue nonprofit work. A year and a half later, I was back living with my folks serving a semester of academic suspension from Auburn. I...
Alan Siegel talks about simplifying legal jargon, from credit card agreements to IRS forms. Considering a 1000+ page health care bill was just signed into law, it seems this is a talk worth listening to. It’s about four and a half minutes. Take the time to watch it. Finally, something we can all agree to:...
I’ve been using ProPhoto for a little over a year now. Once upon a time I worked hard, laboring over HTML code on a Blogger hosted site. After a couple years, I moved over to wordsarenotenough.com and installed WordPress. WordPress took very little time to figure out, but in order to customize my themes, I...
[Originally posted a year ago, I've revised this post for 2010.] If there’s one thing I’ve learned about job-hunting, it’s that companies obsess over experience and no one wants to give it. Almost every job I’ve applied for over the last year has required at least 2 years of related on-the-job experience, and almost none...
