It is really important to know your industry. Often in the workplace, we get caught up in the daily grind. Procedures become the norm, after A is B. We miss the big picture.

How does this help my customer? How does this make/save money for my company?

Today’s workforce must be adaptive because industry standards are at a constant change (financial regulation, corporate responsibility, new media, etc.). To be successful, you have to know what you do, you have to love what you do.

Take the time to understand your role in the company and the industry. Industry knowledge is not only crucial to career growth, but it allows you to work better now. By understanding the bigger picture, your work will highlight what is the most important and work more efficiently. Upon promotion, your industry knowledge will be used to guide your team to further success.

What is the key to getting noticed in life and work? Confidence! Being noticed is the key to success. It will land you the girl and it will land you the next promotion. Hard work should not go unnoticed but all too often it does. People will slowly begin to expect you to continue performing at your current workload and ethic, without realizing →

Porterville woman marches through Officer’s School A Porterville resident has graduated from
Officer ’s Candidate School in Fort
Benning, in Columbus, Georgia.
Second Lt. Analisa Roman, from B
Company, 3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry
with the United States Army, graduated
from the OCS class on March 18.
A 2003 graduate of Porterville High
School, 2005 graduate of Porterville
College and a University of California
Santa Barbara graduate of 2008, Roman
said her involvement →

Suzanne and I recently purchased a Nespresso machine. We had been looking at espresso machines for a while and had listened to the whole 19 Bars of pressure speech from various sales reps. A few weeks ago, we walked into the Williams and Sonoma store in Bell Square. We passed by the see-through bread toaster and straight to the →

A few posts back, I stated that I would be an iPhone user for as long as my parents payed for it. Well I lied. I recently bought a Blackberry Bold 9700 and I love it. I have been bored with the iPhone for a while. I had been an iPhone user since the day it was released. I remember →