Dedicated to my mother, father, grandmother & RJ My father approached me from behind to look and read what I was typing on my laptop. I was sitting at a desk trying to write something just like my father decades ago. I was somehow able to write a paragraph after thinking for awhile. After a moment of silence, my father said, “It sucks.” What a way to encourage or motivate! I immediately stopped writing. I didn’t stop writing because I was discouraged by my own father. My father was right. It really sucked. I was wasting my time writing a story that wasn’t coming from my own voice and style. I was trying to write and express like somebody else instead of finding and developing my own. Therefore, I stopped writing completely and spent rest of my time in South Korea revisiting and exploring before returning to the USA. Towards […]

Before I begin to tell this story, I would like to set the record straight. During the course of this story, it is possible for you to ask who am I to talk or criticize somebody when I was just a low hourly employee who was never a part of the management. This is why I’m going to explain who I was while working for this Fortune 100 behemoth. Without exaggerating, I was an employee who was willing to put money and the job on the line to challenge or compete other employees including managers to see who could do better when it came to my job/work. Out of 100s or 1000s of employees I have seen and worked with in the past from this corporation, I only met one person who could do better than me in one part of the operation. He was a Polish kid from NJ […]