I’ve held various marketing positions during my career, each of which presented different challenges. I have proactively tackled those challenges with creativity and ingenuity. Facing the task of marketing myself as I search for my next career opportunity, I’m attempting to bring that same outside-the-box approach. As we all well know, a resume does not […]
For What It’s Worth (FWIW)
Growing up in Rhode Island, I religiously devoured the Providence Journal sports section every morning. My favorite writer at the paper was Bill Reynolds. Perhaps Reynolds’ most popular column each week is his “For What It’s Worth” piece, a rambling, stream of conscious, collection of thoughts. In homage to Reynolds, I thought it might be […]
Trade-Off/Laid Off
In my most recent post, I wrote about loving your work and managing your work/life balance. This, of course, was followed the very next day by my department being cut in half due to a larger corporate restructuring, resulting in me being laid off. I thought I’d take this opportunity to revisit my comment from […]
If you can’t be with the ones you love, love the work you do
I apologize for the prolonged absence from posting. Unfortunately, the snow and ice dams terrorizing my house have been my main focus of late. As a related aside….we all value different friends for different reasons. It’s important to have friends that will listen to your problems and offer sage advice, or friends to grab a […]
Brave New World
While we aren’t quite living in the society envisioned by Aldous Huxley in his 1932 novel, I don’t think too many of us could have possibly imagined the technological advancements we’ve achieved and how they would affect our daily lives. Being snowed in today during a major blizzard, this seemed like an appropriate time to […]
A little birdie told me…
I saw a quote recently that said, “Twitter makes me like people I don’t know more and Facebook makes me like people I do know less.” While this is obviously a generalization and isn’t universally true, it fairly accurately describes my sentiments regarding the two social media sites these days. This could be due in […]
Meet the author
So, in case you hadn’t noticed by now, my name is Dave Cutler. With this being my first foray into blogging, I’ll ask that you bear with me as I find my voice and learn as I go. I welcome your feedback and advice. While this is my personal blog, my intention is for this […]