Over the past three months, I’ve written a few times about this topic, but that is for a reason. It is something that most people don’t understand, and those that do understand undervalue. That is …
You Can’t Ease Your Way Into Valuable Work
There is lots of popular advice about working smart not hard. Most of the advice givers (that you read advice from) are successful and have gone through long periods of hard work. Whether it was …
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Three Lesson I Learned as a Cook
This is a continuation of a series of posts about lessons I learned from my past jobs. The first jobs were: Vineyard Laborer, Wine Labeler, Bookkeeping, Barista. I worked as as a barista and server …
Three Lessons From Making Coffee
I quit my job, sold almost all my stuff, packed the rest into a storage unit, and went traveling for 6-months in 2014. During those six months, Amanda and I decided that we wanted to pursue a …
Three Lessons from Bookkeeping
After working in our family winery as a teen and during college, I set out to find a "real" job at 21. I remember how afraid I was that I wouldn’t be able to get a good job after college because I …
Three Lessons from Labeling Wine
Growing up I worked in vineyards during the summer and part-time labeling wine in the winter. Labeling was a two-man job, so my friend Pat and I worked as a labeling team. It’s not a glamorous or …