Over the past month, during December 2024, I spent hours and hours and hours, took a break, and then after hours and hours and hours of CompTIA study, I passed the A+ Core I exam in late January on the path to A+ Certification! Thanks to the good people at Total Seminars I utilized a […]
Winter finally returned to New York just as I remembered it while growing up across the river in New Jersey. Frigid weather and snow, yay! But with conditions like that it was time for a short jaunt to the heart of the Caribbean. It was a welcome change of weather for a brief stint in
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Over one month since my last post already! The end-of-year, holiday season consumes time and effort, at least from writing. But it’s time to return to the canvas of WordPress.com to tell another story. In the interim, I celebrated Thanksgiving with family but more entertaining was watching “A Complete Unknown” one day after Christmas. I
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Nearly one month after the national election and politics, here on the local level, goes on. In New Rochelle, New York, the City Council is on the verge of passing a $285M budget, learning that first-hand at a meeting for the New Rochelle Democrats yesterday. As a new district leader in the community, there’s the
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“You have to pay the cost, to be the boss,” Frederick would say as the “body-in-white” was approaching our workstation along the assembly line at a General Motors factory in New Jersey. At our workstation, I and three other assemblers were tasked with attaching the vehicles’ doors before it rolled towards other workstations in the
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The opening lyrics to Radiohead’s 1997 “Let Down,” which is, partly, about being in transit, which New York always is. And transit news is splashed across paper headlines and websites as New York forges ahead with implementing congestion pricing barring a court injunction stemming from several lawsuits. As a former reporter I regularly reported on
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For an intensive five-month digital marketing course I created the “At the Front Tours” website, displaying my website design skills for a fictional tour company providing battlefield tours of the Antietam National Battlefield.
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Challenges in business are a given, but it’s our response to them that defines our trajectory. Looking beyond the immediate obstacle, there lies a realm of opportunity and learning.
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New York of the 1980s that is when my first full-time gig was in the tradeshow business at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. I entered at a young age the world of work, and if that wasn’t hard enough, me and all my fellow colleagues had to endure outright mob control. But the mob’s
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