Now that Mommy turned 39 a couple of weeks ago, she and I are both the same age.
In addition to that, I discovered another coincidence in our ages:
For the next couple of weeks, you will be 9 years, 9 months old; as your sister is 4 years, 4 months old.
By the way, I love the realness of the photo I took of you and your sister on Mommy’s 39th birthday.
You made a big, loud deal out of singing Happy Birthday, as your sister impatiently yet quietly waited for the song to end so she could finally have some chocolate cake!
It is quite possible to know a person very well and for a long time, without actually knowing much about what they do for a living. I think it is interesting how a person’s career, which occupies the majority of their waking hours, is undeniably connected somehow to the version of that person you know.
Their personality, talents, and interests, in “real life” outside of work obviously translate relevantly to how they make a living. If not, they would not be good enough to sustain making a living in that career.
So whether you’ve known me since preschool but haven’t been around me much since we graduated high school, or you’ve only known me as a married man with two kids, if you don’t really know how I make a living, you’re going to find out now…
I am a recruiter for truck drivers at a Fortune 500 company at their location in the Nashville area. I am responsible for filling job openings, nationwide, for them. I admit this may sound like a random career, but imagine all the 18 wheeler trucks you see anytime you’re on the interstate, moving all the freight to all the stores. Without truck drivers, our economy could not exist very long.
To burrow from my own LinkedIn profile, here’s an overview of my job as a recruiter:
My position identifies, recruits, interviews and recommends candidates for driving positions. Other daily responsibilities include sourcing, screening, interviewing and referring candidates to hiring managers, determining the best approach to fill assigned positions, maintaining effective working relationships with HR and business partners to ensure appropriate service levels are met; ensuring compliance with all legal aspects of recruiting, exercising judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate actions, and working in compliance with established procedures and protocols.
What I do for a living is a hybrid of Sales and Human Resources, as I have a quota to hit for my monthly hires.
This has been my career since I graduated college with an English degree; which I had originally intended to use to be a teacher.
Ever since Covid Culture kicked in, I’ve been working from my kitchen table. I love it!
But I also have a strong personal conviction to turn my hobbies into side hustles; as opposed to allowing my hobbies to cost me a lot of money.
Therefore, I am the content creator of two YouTube channels (containing thousands of videos I’ve created) and this website (containing hundreds of blog posts; both of which earn passive revenue from ads thanks to Google AdSense (I get a percentage of the revenue from the ads that show before my videos), as well as Amazon Affiliates (like if readers of this blog post click on that yellow taco shirt photo, and either buy the shirt or anything else while they are browsing… I get a percentage of that sale.)
With hundreds of blog posts on this website; as well as thousands of YouTube videos between my two channels, I am just some random guy making money off multiple random people any given minute of every day.
And anybody can do what I do, even you! I’m simply capitalizing on SEO (search engine optimization).
How I make a living is undeniably connected to my personality and skill set:
I am useless when it comes to anything related to math, engineering, or handyman work… or anything at all that could be classified as “technical”.
But when it comes to using my communication skills to hire people who need jobs for managers who eagerly need those spots filled- and when it comes to using the Internet as a dragnet to use content that I create to capture people’s attention… I can do that.
Just don’t expect me to be able to help you fix your car if it’s anything beyond changing a flat tire or to be able help your kid with their math homework if they’re beyond the 4th grade. I will immediately disappoint you!
One of the many personal advantages I’ve had during 2020, the Year of Covid Culture, is that I have had more time than ever to focus on writing new songs.
While I was at the kitchen table practicing my newest song, “Ecclesiastes”, getting it ready to record for one of my YouTube channels, you decided to turn my practice into a jam session.
You found a big plastic bucket and two toy plastic forks and dragged them into the kitchen.
Surprisingly in sync with the rhythm of my song, you began planning the drums
Despite 4th grade having had started a couple of weeks ago, it wasn’t until this week that you actually got to start going to your physical classroom at your school and meet your classmates, as well as your teacher, face to face.
Granted, when I say “face to face”, I of course mean “face mask to face mask”.
You explained to me that you are allowed to take your masks off during recess, “unless we get to close to each other”.
I then envisioned what the game of Tag would look like:
You keep the mask off until you’re close enough to tag the person, then you hurry to reach in your pocket to put your mask back on before you tag them.
Yeah… ’cause that oughtta stop the spread of Covid alright!
As a convenient side effect of Mommy needing to move the guest bed out of the office to accommodate your brother starting 4th grade from the guest room, you have now inherited the guest bed as your own!
That means you got moved up from your little bed to a very big, comfy one!
You are very proud to move up to your “big girl bed”, which happens to line up with you starting Pre-K.
The next step is to paint your bedroom pink; hopefully Labor Day Weekend.
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