Layoffs, recession, unprecedented unemployment, the great r-word (reset/resignation/reformation) — what crazy times we live in right now. One week you could have a new job doubling your former salary, and then the next week be out with a pink slip after the company overhired. However, after being through the interview…

I was pleased this weekend to see that my hometown newspaper, IBJ, was talking about a topic that most don’t want to address: affordable housing. In Indiana, and many other states in the country, the price of housing has had double-digit spikes in the past year. After reading it —…

There are plenty of articles on treating college like a job, but I want to flip the script here and discuss the opposite: how to treat your job like college. Why? First, unemployment in the US has pretty much rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, in that we’re at an all time…

****CAUTION: There are plenty of (really bad) Peep Puns in this article**** Something made me dust off my own peeps diorama of my classrooms back in 2016 this past weekend and ‘peep in’ on them when I was down in my basement hunting for something else — just to see…

*****THIS ARTICLE CONTAINED MY PERSONAL OPINIONS, NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF MY EMPLOYERS OR AFFILIATIONS***** Over the past 2 years now, I’ve been a student of commercial healthcare plans through my day job at Apex Benefits, and mainly, one of two kinds of healthcare plans — self-funded plans. …

Everyone has a junk drawer. You know, the one you can barely get open because it’s crammed full of stuff. You put stuff there because, well, it doesn’t really have anywhere else to “go” — without the junk drawer, the stuff is kind of homeless. …

Everyone is under pressure right now — still — post-pandemic. There are fewer bodies to do the work. Eight percent of all healthcare jobs, for example, are open right now. People have been on high anxiety for 2+ years now, and everyone is beyond exhausted. …

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now — what’s going on in retail (chain) pharmacies mainly. It’s just been a struggle to put words around it as a pharmacist — where my own job has been working the bench in retail pharmacy several times throughout my career. Now…

I’ve always been a travel nut. Well, not always. We didn’t travel much when I was a kid. It wasn’t until I started working and needed to travel for work that I was bit by the travel bug.🐞 Now that we’ve pretty much been shut down for 2 years due…