My vote this election

I often get criticized when I say I’ve never voted in my life and I’m 29 years old. Accusations like I’m not being a good citizen or being ignorant to important issues that are ongoing in our country today. And even though I pay my taxes, abide by the local Read more…

Day 2: working with the government

“Government Source Inspection” is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the process and measurement of results are properly followed in accordance to procedure. They witness the heat treating process to ensure no falsification of records. And even though there are strict guidelines to follow, the sense of pressure of a Read more…

Working with the Government

One of the cool things about being a process engineer at a heat treating company that has tremendous credibility in processing parts, is the interaction with customers that demand the highest quality of properties. Today working with members of our government, brought back a reminder to me something I sometimes Read more…

Thoughts on Motivation

Every morning I set my “opportunity clock”, as Zig Ziglar refers to it as, to go and workout. And believe me, I’m not the most wide awake and well put together person at 4am. But it’s often that I sometimes feel motivation is portrayed by the “big speech at work” Read more…

When work became play for me

I often get crazy looks when I show my enthusiasm to run 26.2 miles or when I decide to go back to graduate school in a field where I’ve never taken an actual course in. But what I’ve realized through my book The Impression of a Good Life: Philosophical Engineering, Read more…

A strange expectation

During my meditation tonight, a reoccurring thought of what others expect of me kept dancing in my mind. That is, what is going to happen to Tony? Is he going to “make it” somewhere? Or is he just looking like an idiot by trying to be different? And really the Read more…

Corporate Worker or Entrepreneur?

In The Impression of a Good Life: Philosophical Engineering, the question of which mountain are you climbing in life is answered through understanding what to value in life. That is the first meaning of value as in being the standards for which you are to live your life and the Read more…