Hello to one and all. I have been quiet for a long time. Lately I have been slowly awakening because I have been challenged by some interesting questions that have come my way from the Internet. Some 4+ years ago I discovered the online question and answer community called "Quora." I got involved with some of the questions and lately my responses have been distinctly impregnated with our Catholic spirituality. I is almost like I have been elbowed by the Lord above and His Advocate. I have come to realize just how much common sense there is in the presence of the Holy Spirit. I is so natural to refer this common sense to the stories that are housed in the Sacred Scriptures.
Over the last month the Spirit has been elbowing me to reflect on the mission that was given to me in my 30 year career of Human Resources Management. When I changed my life's focus, I had to prepare myself for life in the "real world." In those days, the Internet was nothing but a gleam in Bill Gates' and Paul Allen's eyes. I "studied" the Help Wanted Ads morning noon and night. I picked the brains of our "real world" uncles, aunts and cousins. I nearly burnt the church down with the volume of candles I lit. I actually enrolled in a community college to take a semester of algebra so that I would not have to admit that I had not passed in high school. I did pass = C+😉😕😏 with the generous help of Laura Dion, now a senior electronics engineer with Qualcomm.
After some three months I was able to pass an interview at a famous Japanese company named Kyocera. This is a name constructed Kyoto and ceramics. As it turned out, not only did I do well in the interview held in the board room and lasting 2 hours, but I later found out that I had projected a positive outlook on life. It also turned out that I had correctly answered the key question correctly.
After the interview it became clear to me that despite the lack of a core Catholic presence, the company was managed according to admirable moral values. My supervisor/mentor was a graduate of Georgetown U, a Jesuit institution. His grandfather was a Presbyterian minister and a poet of deep talent who was mainly dedicated to spiritual flights of visionary expressions. It was clear to me that this was a blessing from God.
I could write many paragraphs about the life lessons I learned in the six years that I worked there. That is not my intention for now. What I have promised myself to do for now is to dwell on the "Acts of the Apostle" not just during my stay at Kyocera, but during my senior managerial life as a human resources Missionary. I have no intention to tell the dark tales of a human resources director. Over the next month or so, I invite you to join me and enjoy the positive side of a lay missionary's life.
Enjoy yourselves and you'll find out why there is to be no crying at my funeral.
Over the last month the Spirit has been elbowing me to reflect on the mission that was given to me in my 30 year career of Human Resources Management. When I changed my life's focus, I had to prepare myself for life in the "real world." In those days, the Internet was nothing but a gleam in Bill Gates' and Paul Allen's eyes. I "studied" the Help Wanted Ads morning noon and night. I picked the brains of our "real world" uncles, aunts and cousins. I nearly burnt the church down with the volume of candles I lit. I actually enrolled in a community college to take a semester of algebra so that I would not have to admit that I had not passed in high school. I did pass = C+😉😕😏 with the generous help of Laura Dion, now a senior electronics engineer with Qualcomm.
After some three months I was able to pass an interview at a famous Japanese company named Kyocera. This is a name constructed Kyoto and ceramics. As it turned out, not only did I do well in the interview held in the board room and lasting 2 hours, but I later found out that I had projected a positive outlook on life. It also turned out that I had correctly answered the key question correctly.
After the interview it became clear to me that despite the lack of a core Catholic presence, the company was managed according to admirable moral values. My supervisor/mentor was a graduate of Georgetown U, a Jesuit institution. His grandfather was a Presbyterian minister and a poet of deep talent who was mainly dedicated to spiritual flights of visionary expressions. It was clear to me that this was a blessing from God.
I could write many paragraphs about the life lessons I learned in the six years that I worked there. That is not my intention for now. What I have promised myself to do for now is to dwell on the "Acts of the Apostle" not just during my stay at Kyocera, but during my senior managerial life as a human resources Missionary. I have no intention to tell the dark tales of a human resources director. Over the next month or so, I invite you to join me and enjoy the positive side of a lay missionary's life.
Enjoy yourselves and you'll find out why there is to be no crying at my funeral.
