Category Archives: Personal Success
Shakespeare Authorship and Our Expectations of Greatness
This is not a scholarly post. Let me make that clear. However, it is a response to a certain scholarship. The Shakespeare Authorship “question”. Mainly, in how it relates to the way we perceive greatness, accomplishment, and creativity. I am not guilty of the so called “Bardolatry”. The author of the plays contributed by Shakespeare …
James Franco is a Bad Influence, by J. Maureen Henderson
I have this habit where the more someone or multiple someones tell(s) me that I should like something (a person, a band, a movie, a brand of granola bar), the more I get it in my head that I’ll do just the opposite. A petty holdover from childhood that I’m trying to quit, but one …
Not for Love or Money: A Better Way to Choose a Career, by Jen Gresham
When I decided to leave the military after 16 years of service, just four years short of the necessary time to collect a retirement check at the ripe age of 42, people thought I was nuts. What in the world couldn’t be endured for just four more years with a payout like that? What made …
Don’t Sell Your Friends Up the Network River (A Featured Post on Brazen Careerist)
By now regular readers will know I don’t do things as most people do them. Much of the advice I get about what I “have to” do in order to be successful just doesn’t apply to me. One of them is networking in the traditional sense. I don’t believe in it, as defined by most …
Too XYZ Featured on Examiner.com
One of my previous posts, “College? Epic Fail” has been quoted by Sharalyn Hartwell in a piece she wrote for Examiner.com. In it she comments on a recent survey, (conducted by Country Financial) about attitudes that the so called “millenials” are beginning to adopt in regards to higher education and its expenses. It’s called “Millenials …
Ty Unglebower 