Casting Cares…

Twenty-four. That's the number of days I have left at my "real" job. You see, my company is making some cuts and has a need to reduce the workforce. Following God's leading, I volunteered to leave of my own accord, before I was asked to leave via layoff. I felt as if between 31 and Disney, God was allowing me the income avenues that could lead to the blessing of being more of the woman He wants me to be. To stay home with my kiddos, be a better mother and begin the writing legacy I've dreamt ... VIEW POST

A Terrible Engineer

Several years ago, there was a fellow about my age that I worked with named "Tom". Tom didn't have an engineering degree, yet he was placed in an engineering position because management needed a body to fill that spot, and he had a degree... in something. I thought he did well, especially given his lack of formal training. Management, however, did not. They were on him constantly to perform, produce, and have expertise in many things an engineer should know. At some point early within his ... VIEW POST

Faithful With Little

I would say 99.999%. That’s about the percentage of time I am normally joyful and perky. But every now and then that half-of-a-half-of-a-half of a percent of the time, I am grumpy. Or doubtful, or discouraged. And it just eats me up. Take today for instance. Now for those of you who don’t know, I wear many different "official" career hats, as well as some "unofficial" ones. One hat is an engineer, another is a Senior Director (aka: leader) with Thirty-One Gifts, and the last is an authorized ... VIEW POST