How do you deal with the jobs you held during the early part of your career?

It used to be you only showed the last 10 years or so. I choose to simply list the job titles for positions over 10 years ago on my resume.

What do you do?

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EMSpeople.com is a new social networking community for the EMS industry, a project by EMSNow.com.

I am member #71; member #1000 and the person that refers them wins an iPod Touch. My profile is here. I just signed up and haven’t filled it out yet, but I’ll work on it over the weekend.

If you’re in the EMS industry as a supplier, manufacturer or customer, check it out.

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Wow. I didn’t even think about the fall colors when we decided to move to Northern Alabama earlier this year. Spring was beautiful, one of the most I’ve seen in my life, anywhere. But the last 2 weeks have been an explosion of color! Amazing…

My wife and daughter took a bunch of pictures of the leaves. Some of my daughter’s are quite good and she plans to enter them in an art contest. I’ll probably drop a couple into some of my upcoming posts just to spice things up here in the next few weeks. Hope you enjoy!

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While in a business meeting today, a co-worker started to tell a joke, stopped, and looked around. Before he could continue, another co-worker interrupted and advised:

“If you’ve got to look around before you say it, you should probably keep it to yourself.”

Words to live by.

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Installation was super-easy. Just point and click. It took about a day for the Wordpress application to pull in my posts properly - I wanted to only pull in those posts I’d tagged with “LinkedIn”. I also tried out the Amazon “What I’m reading” application.

I removed both applications after a week, though. I didn’t like that they installed in the middle of my resume between the summary and the job history. It broke up the whole profile, in my opinion. I would have preferred these be installed in the right column of the profile. If it’s possible to move the applications (a la Wordpress widgets) I was too dense to figure out how.

As for the Amazon application, I don’t see the benefit to me of keeping up with my reading list just to sell a few books for LinkedIn. Now, if I could tie this reading list in to my Amazon Associates code perhaps I might be more motivated. But, allowing users to make money from their profiles could lead to the sort of behavior that would turn LinkedIn into another Facebook or Myspace where it is all about the size of the network rather than the quality of the network.

I have not tried the slideshow app, but need to set aside time to do so. I have not filled my profile out beyond the chronological info, instead providing links to my resume from the profile. I can see where building a slideshow app with bullet points of my accomplishments might be beneficial. I am sure it will be huge for those people in creative fields where portfolios are a key component of the job search.

If I come across new information that causes me to re-think the above and try these or other new applications, I’ll be sure to provide an update.

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“Oh great, I’m going to have to deal with this every time I go to a grocery store between now and Christmas,” I grumbled to myself.

I handed my daughter a handful of pennies. Maybe I can get out of this cheap if I use it as a life-lesson for the little one, I thought. Not very charitable, I admit.

Then, I read the vest: Knights of Columbus. And he was holding big fat tootsie-rolls. And the memories came flooding back.

*****

My grandfather was in the Knights. I remember when I was still a boy and he became a 4th-degree Knight. It was an important event in his life, and I remember my grandmother being very proud. He served the Knights for many, many years in a variety of roles until his health forced him move to assisted living and later, a nursing home. A favorite memory of my brothers and mine is boxes of big fat tootsie-rolls in their freezer, purchased during the Knights fundraising drives, and always there just for us.

He passed away on Long Island a few years ago, far from the parish and chapter, and many years removed from where he’d served. My father and his brothers knew my grandfather had been a regular participant in ceremonies the Knights would perform for deceased brothers, but thought he was too far removed from the Knights by that time to request similar honors. But, they pulled his regalia out of storage and set it on display next to his casket in honor of his many years of service.

Shortly after his wake began, a group of Knights showed up for another Knights’ wake and began rehearsing their ceremony. I smiled at the coincidence and let it go, walking back to the viewing room. I was standing with my father and uncles a few minutes later when one of the Knights approached them and asked if they’d arranged for an honor guard. They explained that they had not done so in the belief that because Grandpa had become inactive when his health declined, they didn’t want to impose on the Knights. The Knight explained that they’d seen his 4th-degree regalia while passing the room and they wanted to provide an honor guard regardless.

The group came into the room and performed a short ritual and left two Knights behind, standing at attention at the ends of the casket. The men were well into their retirement years, but stood there for almost two hours to honor a man they had never met, in recognition of what it meant to be a brother Knight and a 4th-degree. It was a touching event, and one I will never forget.

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I think that sometimes God gives us signs. I’ve not felt charitable lately, feeling more like I should be asking for charity rather than giving to charity. But, I saw a Knight this afternoon and had a tootsie roll for the first time in a long time, and I know everything will be fine.

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In presidential elections, I always vote Republican. In state and local elections, it’s been a mixed bag. In this year’s presidential election, I don’t know what to do. I don’t think either one of these guys understands what is happening to us right now, and I haven’t seen anything from either one that gives me confidence they can deal with an economic meltdown successfully.

But, I have to be fair. No one person possesses all the knowledge and skill to fix this situation. It wasn’t created by one person overnight, and it won’t be fixed by one person overnight. Let’s be fair: It is going to take a team of the best and brightest, and they better be able to communicate effectively, with integrity, so at least the fear that is present in the market can go away and give the world time to deal with the situation at a fundamental level. I want to know NOW who those people will be. I need to know who will have your ear on economic matters. So, Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama, here’s how you can get my vote:

Put together your economic and financial team NOW. Behave as though you are already elected. Who is your Treasury Secretary? Who are your economic advisers? Who will administer the bailout plan?

You don’t have time to wait for the election, then take two and a half months to decide on the team and begin the transition. You need them now, and they need to be attached to their counterparts in the Bush administration at the hip. I need to see that your team is qualified and prepared for what they will deal with.

In football, the more mature players will tell the flamboyant rookies this about how to behave after a touchdown: Act like you’ve been there before.

The guy that gets my vote is the one that starts behaving today like he has already won.

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