Your Career and You: “Keeping It Fresh”
Once in a while, I look around at people who I know…people who I work with…people who I don’t know but see regularly…and wonder how “excited” they are about what they’re doing for a living. During the...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Learning…Patience”
As a (now) “professional” teacher doing my thing at Curry College introducing young undergraduate Communication majors and others to my own lifelong career choice/passion of Public Relations, I talk...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Say ‘No’ to Negativity”
I just spent what seems like an eternity with someone who has, without doubt, the most negative approach to life of anyone I’ve run into in my entire life. We’re talking serious “no…unh-unh…no way.” By...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “You’re Smarter Than You Think”
The past few weeks have been, to put it as kindly as I can, freaking insane. I spent a mind-blowing four days in Washington, DC, at the Public Relations Society of America’s International Conference...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Customer Service…a Promise is a Promise”
I’m on vacation in my “second home” of Taipei, Taiwan, getting some badly-needed rest and, at the same time, working myself into a frenzy of hissy-fitness thanks to the ineptitude of a team of “agents”...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Running for the Bus”
Classes have started for the fall semester at Curry College where, as a member of the Communication Department, I head the Public Relations Concentration. That translates into a whole new herd of...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Watching Flowers Grow”
One of the truly rewarding things about my current life as a PR professor has been introducing young men and women to the profession that has been mine for more than a quarter-century and seeing that...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “People Watching”
I realized today, after having done this for a dozen or so times, that, in addition to a much-needed boost to my brainpower, mall-sitting offers one unique benefit…the opportunity to observe a varied...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Personal Recognition…It’s Good ‘PR’!”
It took me a long time to figure this out myself…If you don’t tell people who you are, they’re not going to know who you are.” I know this is a mind-blowingly obvious statement, but how many of you are...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Looking Back; Planning Forward”
Life’s funny (said the wise professor). It’s totally unpredictable, but so much of it can be, if not predicted, at least planned for. I know that this uncertainty makes most of my PR Concentration...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Dive into the Deep End”
I’ve been reading Facebook updates and blog posts by my Curry College COM/PR students that kind of tell me they’ve taken my unsolicited but sincere advice to heart. Time and again, in the classroom as...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Bottom line…lose the ’tude”
I was watching an episode of “The Middle” recently (okay, Curry College COM/PR students and CCPRSA members…don’t judge!) in which Axl proclaims that of course he’s going to get the job he’s going to...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “I’m a ‘Vampire’”
Now that I’ve got your attention…lemme ’splain (as Ricky Ricardo so often said to Lucy). I talk and write about the fact that I’m an introvert. And yet, ironically, I have a burning need to be around...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Finding Inspiration”
I’ve been in something of a creative slump these past few months. Lots of stuff going on, but no “spark”…no inspirational jumpstart. Part of the problem lies in my still-developing “retirement” mode....
View ArticleYour Career and You: “What’s Next?”
One of the hallmarks of my own professional life has been a never-changing “itch” to try something new or different. Even while in high school and college, I dabbled in jobs like grocery store bagboy,...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “I’m a Vampire!”
The past month was hands-down the loonngggest month I’ve endured in my entire life. Margaret (my wife) had cataract surgery on both eyes, and I voluntarily put all my own activities (PRSA Tampa Bay in...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “Just Do It”
I used those three words… “Just Do It”…in my last post with a tip of the literary hat to Nike for beating me to the punch. But this week’s activities have really driven home the true meaning of the...
View ArticleYour Career and You: “I’m Ba-aack!”
For those of you who have paid attention, I have been “MIA” for several months now. Nothing unusual (sort of) going on…just haven’t updated this blog for a while. But, as you know if you’re reading...
View ArticleJust Another Day…
Hate to be a downer here, but I do not like summers. Or at least I haven’t liked them since I transitioned from PR professional to PR professor to “retired…” It hasn’t been easy…not that I’ve actually...
View ArticleI Absolutely LOVE Learning!
This “revelation” comes as no surprise to any of you who have subjected yourselves to my musings over the years. Learning, to me, is a passion. Whether it be, as a toddler, sticking a metal nail file...
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