A few years ago Google released an internal study that said there was no correlation that workers with four-year degree equates to successful employees. More recently, Elon Musk (The Tesla and SpaceX innovator) has said he doesn’t care if you have a degree or not. Employers – recruiters and hiring teams – have been lamenting […]
Career Advice After 40 Years In The Game
I quit my in December of 2018. Well, technically I retired, but it is still quitting. After 40 years of learning and growing within the context of my job, I am choosing to do that on my own now. On my own schedule, and choosing which assignments I want to do, and when I will […]
For Me, It’s Always Time To Be Blacktastic!
Being Black. Where do I begin? When your parents got together and later found out they were pregnant the first thing they knew about you is your ethnicity. They knew, based on their racial background, that you were going to be black, white, brown, olive or whatever the hell else skin color combination is out […]
How About Celebrating Modern Black History As Well
My first memories of Black History Month began the summer before I entered middle school. My parents sent me to a summer camp called “The Institute.” That summer I learned about the usual Black History icons including W.E.B DuBois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. I read a dozen books […]
When It Comes To Confronting Discrimination, I Could Have Done More
I have few regrets regarding my career. No job I shouldn’t have taken, or no move I should not have made. There may have been a missed opportunity in not accepting change, but I can never know that. There are things I would have done differently with the benefit of hindsight. One of those is […]
Ageism: A White Man’s Introduction To Discrimination
. I’m a white Christian male, always have been and always will be. As such, I’ve never been a minority by any measure – that is until I turned 40. Then like everyone else who turns forty I became a member of an EEOC classification and protected class as defined by the 1964 Civil Rights […]