Hello Again

Well, I've been slacking on this blogging due to my lack of internet at the house. Comcast will be arriving in 2 days!! Woohoo!

Anyways, just thought I'd share some thoughts and tid-bits since my last posting on the 23rd.

Remember when we were all kids, wondering what we'd be when we were all grown up and in the working world? Well, now that I am that grown up kid, and in the working world, I sometimes revert back to that kid and wonder where my path will lead.

Mine? Well, I'd like to continue working in the hospitality field, obtain my MBA, work for some years and hope to become a professor by 32-35. I know I need to go for a Ph D. as well, but there are some extremely good professors who only have an MBA. I know in this cut throat, cyclical world of resume boosters, having a Ph D. would thoroughly enhance that, but with the right background and relevancy I feel that anyone can do *almost any job.

Think about it for a second .....................


Good, now I have a Bachelor's from Penn State, but honestly, with enough training and drive someone without a degree can do my job. The world and society look at the tangible aspects that a person has. For example, when I used to intern in HR we would pass resumes through a "scanner" per se, in which it would send resumes to the reject pile or investigate further based off of "key words" (e.g. - effective, degree, university, institute, manage, supervise, etc.). I thought that this was quite inhumane as those people who didn't have those were immediately rejected before given the chance to prove themselves. Unfair. I understand places like Google, etc. may have to do this as they have 900 resumes come through per hour for open positions at their company. Crap, I'd send in my resume as well, but we revert back to the "tangible" aspects of the business world. Long story short (or short story long in this case), everyone deserves a proving chance with relevancy and some form of background for the position in which they're applying for (this statement doesn't apply to just work, you can apply this to any situation in your personal life).

Enough about that for now .... Megan and I attended mid-week's service last night. It was good, but I think both our minds were on other things!! I enjoyed watching an older gentleman fall asleep two isles ahead of me. Seriously? Yes. We had an amazing night of just being ourselves like we always do!

I remembered to bring my wallet here to work today. I immediately thought yesterday as soon as I took the parking ticket and pulled past the gate that went back down as I passed it, "CRAP, my wallet!!!" With the thankfulness of having relatives living in the city, I called mi madre and had her lend me some moola so that I could actually get to my house. Gracias madre!

Off to work as I have a 9am meeting.

Cheers.

- Matt