I’ve been interviewing with a lot of companies lately, and I recently heard a comment on the state of the industry that attracted my attention. An employer I was talking to mentioned, off-hand, that despite the economic conditions and the number of people looking for jobs, companies are having a surprisingly difficult time finding personnel [...]
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The Topiary Personnel Roster
Posted in employment, job search, markets, work, workplace, tagged Career, economy, engineering, job search, management, society, work, workplace on 18 August, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Me Generation?
Posted in current events, employment, society, teaching, work, workplace, tagged engineering, excellence, management, society, work, workplace on 31 March, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m 45 now, I’ve been an engineer for over half my life. Bit by bit, I have passed into the second half of my career without ever seeing the change coming. Every once in a while I run into a discussion, in person or online, about the Millenials as the “Me Generation”, about how young [...]
Career: Project management
Posted in employment, Personal, work, workplace, tagged Career, excellence, management, Personal, planning, work, workplace on 23 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As in many other technical disciplines, it’s a frequent career path for engineers — almost required — to move from on from pure technical work (design, analysis, number-crunching, etc.) onto project management. A long time ago as an undergrad in civil engineering, my course concentration was in construction project management. I learned the crunchy part, [...]
General Plan town hall meeting
Posted in current events, local, tagged california, housing, humboldt, landscape, local, management, planning, politics on 3 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Humboldt County General Plan Update news: the next “town hall”-style meeting is planned for June 11; it’s a continuation of the April 30 meeting. Land Use Element “Town Hall Style” Continued Planning Commission Meeting Humboldt County Draft General Plan – Land Use Element June 11, 2009 The Humboldt County Planning Commission will host a public [...]
GPU “town hall” meeting on Thursday
Posted in current events, local, tagged california, humboldt, landscape, local, management, natural resources, planning, politics on 28 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Humboldt County General Plan Update news: notice received Monday from the Planning Division of Humboldt County Community Development Services: Housing Element “Town Hall Style” Planning Commission Meeting Humboldt County Draft General Plan — Land Use Element April 30, 2009 The Humboldt County Planning Commission will host an informal public workshop on the Draft Land Use [...]
Plan Alternatives for the Humboldt County 2009 Draft General Plan — Continued
Posted in current events, local, tagged california, humboldt, landscape, local, management, natural resources, planning on 3 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Humboldt County General Plan Update is marching ever onward. Notice received Thursday from the Planning Division of Humboldt County Community Development Services: Notice of Release Release of the Plan Alternatives for the Humboldt County 2009 Draft General Plan April 2, 2009 The Key Issues and Plan Alternatives Comparison Charts for the draft General Plan [...]
Plan Alternatives for the Humboldt County 2009 Draft General Plan
Posted in current events, local, tagged california, humboldt, local, management, planning on 19 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Notice received Wednesday from the Planning Division of Humboldt County Community Development Services: Notice of Release Release of the Plan Alternatives for the Humboldt County 2009 Draft General Plan March 18, 2009 The Key Issues and Plan Alternatives Comparison Charts for the draft General Plan Update (GPU) for Sections 4.2 (Growth Planning), 4.3 (Urban Lands), [...]
Sequoia Park Zoo in trouble
Posted in current events, local, tagged economy, humboldt, local, management on 13 March, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Reprinted from today’s message from the Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation: Dear Zoo Members & Supporters, We need your help to Save Sequoia Park Zoo! You may have read in the paper recently Eureka City Councilmember Larry Glass’s suggestion that the City of Eureka close the Sequoia Park Zoo in order to balance the 2009/10 budget [...]
Book recommendation: Getting Thing Done
Posted in books, tagged books, Career, excellence, management, reviews on 9 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Based on a recommendation from Patty Huntley, the trainer at the project management class I recently attended, I picked up David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. It’s my turn now to recommend it as a very useful reading. Getting Things Done provides a very practical, down-to-earth, useful plan for getting organized and sticking to it. [...]
Wild fires: Australia and California compared
Posted in current events, environment, tagged california, climate, landscape, management, natural resources on 26 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An interesting article on Science Blog today entitled “Why California should consider Australia’s ‘prepare, stay and defend’ wildfire policy”. It compares and contrasts the Australian “Prepare, stay and defend, or leave early” policy with California’s policy of mandatory evacuations followed by fire suppression. There is no magic one-size-fits-all to fighting wild fires, but it’s useful [...]
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