Learning
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Week Nine at a Start-Up
“We’re like Uber for business to business deliveries.” This is one of the first things I mention on the phone, and often when people hear this they’re intrigued – as I was when I first heard about Dispatch. I really like working at Dispatch, the people are great, the culture is great, the product is great! So here are my thoughts from the first nine weeks. This is a non-exhaustive list mind you. Things I learned How to use Hubspot CRM How to use Zoominfo How to continue improving on my phone communication skills How to schedule out a normal work day Things I did for fun Went to the…
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It Was Objectively Interesting
It’s been 4 weeks since my adventure at The Objective Standard Conference (TOS_Con) in Park City, Utah, but I just realized I hadn’t written a blog post about it yet. I t was such a great adventure, and although, smaller, longer, and different from FEE-Con it was also very valuable. I learned a lot. I also had a ton of fun, that said FEECon was a better conference, it helped that there were more young people there. TOS-Con had some amazing and unique sessions. Some were more interesting to me than others, and some I admittedly didn’t enjoy but there were others I was ecstatic about. I used to hate…
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Holy Guacamole
Since college, I’ve come to love guacamole (guac). Every once in a while I’ll get some with my burritos, or order a meal with it at a restaurant. One day I decided I wanted to try making my own at home, I thought, maybe it’ll be cheap and easy. So I looked up recipes online. I tried one and although it was relatively simple, it called for a lot of ingredients. I did it all and it was good, but I wondered if I could make it simpler. I did. Although my recipe is bare bones if you just want a snack and you have these 2 ingredients on hand…
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What Have You Got To Lose?
If you try something, apply to something, ask something etc. Often times there is a lot to lose by making a certain choice, whether that’s time, money, or resources, or maybe even relationships, but that doesn’t mean there always is, or that it outweighs the wins. When I apply for jobs I realize that sending in an application hardly hurts me. It takes a couple of minutes, and I could find my dream job. That said, I really like responding to job openings that ask for a “Google Jobs” form reply or an email reply, it allows for either a streamlined process or plenty of information and creativity. When I…
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What Degree of Use?
I’ve met many people with doctorates with great success, I’ve also met people who got a certificate from a tech school with great success, I also know people with a high school diploma alone that have had great success. The other day I met a person with a masters degree who was doing the same work next to me at a temp job. I’ve also heard of high school dropouts who run companies, the thing is I’ve honestly I’ve heard of people at all levels of education who own companies. So why do I say all of this? Well, sometimes it doesn’t matter the level of education you’ve achieved if…
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An Unexpected Toy
I was born in the ’90s so I remember a time in my life without the influence of computers. But my sister and I started using computers in late elementary school, and during our last year of homeschool, our parents made my dad’s old computer, the “homeschool” computer. It’s where my sister and I would play computer games, learned to type, logged into our Webkinz accounts, and where we’d later log into our first social media account (Shoutlife, if you were curious). It was also at the desk where my mom often made homeschool lesson plans and graded our assignments. My sister and I didn’t have cell phones until about…
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The Business of Email
Social Media is important, but so is email; it can’t be too often, not too little, great content, helpful links, engaging ideas and titles, a lot goes into a good email. While working a contract role at a private k-12 in my area I learned how MailChimp worked. I used their templates but had to figure out how to edit in the up-to-date information each time (about weekly). I have also created a MailChimp account of my own to see what it looks like to try and brand an email from scratch, its an interesting and engaging process, thinking through every element and how you want to greet the receiver.…
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Adobe Photo Suite 101
As I apply for jobs I’m trying to learn more skills that will be helpful. One of those included trying adobe software. So today I’m going to explain how I’ve used the photo editing apps. Lightroom It’s like the Instagram app, but with far more options. I then realized presets were an important element and found some on the internet. Although they may be important and helpful for learning they aren’t an all in one solution. Playing with the features is a key to starting out on this one, seeing what you like and how you can achieve the desired styling. Here are images I changed the lighting on. I…
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Learn From People Whom You Disagree With and Those You Don’t Get Along With
You don’t have to take on their views or opinion, or their attitude, character or peresonality for that matter, but often you can even learn about yourself and your own views through others. Just don’t let them affect you for the worst. Everyone has acquaintances and perhaps friends that they disagree with. What’s interesting is the common ground you can find, especially if both parties cooperate, and try to find common ground. You see I’ve learned a lot from people I don’t agree with much on. I’ve learned even more from those I don’t get along with, I’ve learned about how I don’t want to come across and how can…
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Bettering Yourself
I’ve said it before that I’m always learning, but I want to further describe here how inclusive that truley is. You see, even on my way into work, I was learning and improving my driving skills from yesterday. Every-time I wrote a new post on this blog or write something I improve my writing as a whole. Same with reading. Every-time I go to a new temp job I’ve learned something about getting better at handling phone calls. All of this is because I’ve seen more, I’ve experienced more, I’ve understood more about how the world works and how I function in it. Part of this is also about learning…
