This is a continuation of one of the long-term ancillary goals of this site, which to alert people about “passion traps”, or blindly follow one’s passion as a career, only to fall into a financial and/or career-hobbling booby trap. If you want to see how this series began, here is Part 1. All that aside, […]
Following Your Passion Gone Horribly Wrong – Part 1
One minor, long-term goal for this blog is to build a series of examples of how one follow’s one’s passion and it goes horribly wrong. I call these “passion traps” for short, because it’s easy to blindly follow your passion only to get suckered into a financial and career-hobbling booby trap. More to the point, […]
Tools to Explore Opportunity
One thing we continue to emphasize at RBG is following opportunity. This is key because by smartly pursuing it, you can make the most of your productivity and hopefully that of both your professional and career growth, too. Here are some tools to help you better examine opportunity. These tools come in the form of […]
Computers, Coding, and Autism: They Go Well Together
To look at the world today, specifically regarding the nature of work, it is hard not to conclude that there has never been a better time for someone with any degree of autism to be on this Earth today, with regard to suitable work opportunities. Case in point: today’s world is more technologically-reliant than ever. […]
Accounting: The Pros and Cons
As we have mentioned in previous articles, when it comes to figuring out what to do for a career, what you need to do before anything is figure out where the employment opportunities are, then figure out to best way pursue them. To put it another way, look at it from a macro-micro approach. In […]
Engineering: a Strong Fit for Many Austistics
Back when the term Asperger’s Disorder was commonly used to refer to those of us with high-functioning Autism, it was sometimes half-jokingly referred to as the “engineer’s disease”. My approach? Enjoy the humorous side of the observation and embrace the serious part as a badge of honor! Even if the term Asperger’s is no longer […]
Airline Mechanic: One High-Flying Trade
In a previous article, we explored the auto mechanic trade. Now, we take it to the next level. On an average commercial airline flight, a jet more than 100 feet long, weighing 170,000 lbs., carrying 6,000+ gallons of fuel and between 100-200 passengers takes off and lands between several hundred to 2,000 miles away without […]
Exploring Mechanic Jobs
In an early article, I asked rhetorically, “why not a trade?”. Contrary to societal pressure, college is not for everyone. Don’t believe me? Look at it this way: college is best-suited for those who learn by books and lecture, i.e., people who are scholars or scholarly-inclined. Most people prefer not to learn that way. Many […]
Engineer Your Education and Skills
Determined to go to college but not sure what to major in? Don’t fret, you are not alone. Most kids your age have little if any idea what they would like to do. Part of the problem is, you don’t know what you don’t know. After all, you’re only 18 or so, and have likely […]
Degrees with the Worst Return on Investment
Below is an explanatory list of degrees we would do best to avoid, except in certain circumstances. Communications Yes, one of my greatest mistakes in life was getting a comm degree. Everyone told me I needed to get into broadcasting because of my strong voice. I thought a comm degree would put me in a […]