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Every Person Has A Job

                  As adults we want to ask young people what should be a simple question.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  I love this question for the answers you can get are all over the charts.  You will get great answers like Policeman, Baker, Princess, and even Teacher.  When I was a manager and use to interview people for jobs.  I loved to ask adults this same question.  Now you might not think this is a valuable tool, I believe this is a great question.  Most adults are surprised by the question considering themselves already grown.                  When you step back to think about it, adults are just grown kids.  Men I will agree are more kids than most others.  I have done a couple of different jobs in my adult life.  I will not go throug...

Hidden Chances

            Recently I watched a movie called Hidden Figures.  This is a true story highlighting the accomplishments of a group of women.  These women had an enormous impact on the outcome of the space program and the success of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration.)  This group of women are smart, hardworking individuals who solved problems in NASA that others could not.  The remarkable thing about these women is most had LESS education than the men who worked at NASA and could perform twice the work.  The women were dedicated to being successful while at the same time understanding their limitations that government and society placed on their community.  One of the themes in the movie is how other people in the movie were always underestimating these women.  From the outside looking in people always have a different perspective.  One point of view can drastically change your ideas or opinion...