This blog of my life story is about my job situation. This is where “don’t live regrets: make it happen” truly applies. Generally, this is a summary of my years in the first half of my working world.
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 6)
This will be among the last of these posts. I can see that they are uninteresting to most folks. Soon I will return to the boots that are the roots of this blog.
Let’s see now, it’s five years later than the period of my last post. Where am I from 1993 to 1998?
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Labor Today
I am taking a short break from my life history…
Why?
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 5)
As I continue to relate my life story of my younger years, I wonder how I did it all. I am grateful for youthful energy.
Fast forward five years… I am in a stable full-time job, I just earned my Master’s Degree, my fixer-upper house has been fully renovated, I’m riding my third motorcycle, I have about 30 pairs of boots (10 of those pairs are Fryes), enjoying wearing leather (allegedly for motorcycle riding), and I’m dating. Well, sorta.
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 4)
Over the last three blog posts, I have been describing my life story in my younger years. So far, I graduated college with two undergraduate degrees, had a temporary job, and bought a real “fixer-upper” house. Now what? I kept mumbling to myself, “how am I going to afford to have this place fixed to make it habitable by more than mice and roaches?”
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 3)
As I continue to reminisce about my younger days graduating high school and going into college then adding a second degree and taking three more semesters to graduate, I think about the downright casual attitude that I had, yet how deep inside I was afraid and worried.
I remember at Christmas the year that I graduated, my twin brother…
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 2)
This is the second post in a series of documenting and telling my life story. In my most recent post, I described the first half of my college life through living in Europe and studying abroad for a year. What happened when I returned?
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 1)
Recently a reader of this blog wrote to me and in my reply, I summarized the message with “don’t live regrets, make it happen.” That phrase which fell out of my head (not some on-line “inspirational phrase” library) tells my story.
So what’s that story?
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Misleading Boot Ads
Somewhere in my academic career, I took a general college-level course on marketing and advertising. I learned a lot of things in that course, especially what to look for in visual advertising. For example, see this ad from a well-regarded western wear/boot retail company:
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Success With Back-to-School Boots
As readers of this blog know, I advocate that guys wear boots. Readers also know that I am from a huge family. I have not one, but three great nephews who are entering high school this year.
A week ago at a family reunion for the marriage of my kid-bro cousin, I struck up a conversation with my great nephews about their thoughts of entering high school this year. One of them said something like, “I wish I could be cool — like the biker you are, Uncle.”
Well, that was nice. So I asked,
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