Building a Routine After a Layoff

Been laid off?  You can accelerate new employment by building a proper routine into your week.  This combined with proper prioritization makes for progress that will help keep you positive and moving forward.  I’ve have experienced unexpected unemployment and job searches several times in my life.  Be it after Dynatrace…
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One Week In, Burns is (Almost) Back

It’s been one week since I unexpectantly joined the growing ranks of those that are #laidoff and #ReadyToWork.  Quite a rollercoaster of emotions and experiences.  If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ve seen me exhibit some of those negative emotions.  A week in and enough is going right that I’m…
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Off Track, but Correcting

I had an experience in the professional part of my life that I let throw me off track.  Something very unexpected, out of “left field” so to speak.  A month after and I’m realizing the impact.  Despite the experience I’ve done some of my best work of late.  But unfortunately…
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What Are You Grateful For?

My son’s 18th birthday.  Me?  Up at 3:30am, vending machine breakfast before boarding a 5:30 flight to Dallas Fort Worth. We got to have dinner with him the night before.  Nice BBQ on the back patio.  Watched him open his present, listened to him talk about the college dorm he’d…
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