Standing the right way for the Job.

I've been interviewed a few time for various things, one was a job, two were for college application, and once to get into my a cappella group. I have also been the one interviewing, once a semester since my freshmen year, and this has prepared me more then anything for interviews I'll have in the future. Forgetting music talent entirely the guys my a cappella group looks for are self motivated alpha males. Because every member of the group is this. If we were to take another sort of personality, we would destroy them. The hard part is picking out their personality in two only 7 minute auditions. And time and time again I find myself figuring out how they are by the way they stand.
You can tell by the stance, the way the hold their hands, the way the move when responding to a question, what kind of person they are. How they handle challenges, how they handle stress. My favorite thing to do is be hitting them with a line of serious questions, and then out of no where throw an off the wall funny one, like "what's your favorite ninja turtle and why?" Watching the physical reaction to that question is usually humorous, and at the same time very telling of what kind of person they are. So like the article said, your body language is very important, and its important that it matches what you say and what you look like. Being a interviewer has driven in that fact into me.

Looking Foward

I've been thinking about my future a lot lately, mostly because I have very few details about it right now. The problem I'm facing is, it is easy to know what you want to do, but very hard to know how to do it. So with that preamble, let me tell you where I would be like in ten years.

In ten years I would like to be living in down town Chicago in a nice condo. I would like to be starting my 3rd career. My first career would have started the first year out of college, hopefully starting my own company selling high end electronics in the audio visual market. My second career would hopefully kick in when I'm around 26, when I would like to start my own high end restraunt and bar. A small very trendy one with a large wine list and small stage for jazz preformers. Hopefully in ten years I will have both these running smoothly, with people I can trust to turn over the day to day operations too. I don't really have an idea of what my third career would be, but if I could pick something now, I would like to start my own production company that would work with either movies or tv, or music.

Personally I would like to be married, and thinking about having kids. Hopefully my family will stay in and around Chicago and I'll be involved in my extended family. I would like to be involved with non-for-profits bettering certian causes in Chicago and the US. I'd also like to be a regular at the big theatres, and big cultural events in the city. Basically I would like to be entering the Chicago elite. Though I'm not looking for fame, I'm only looking for influence.

My other personal goal is to own my own boat, and run my own semi-pro sailing team. I want to own a boat in the most prestigous class. If I were to have my team today I would own a Great Lakes 70, however I know over time the classes and boats will change, so I want to be in the equvilant of that class ten years from now.

So to summerize, when I'm 31 I want to be sucessful, well connected, wealty, and well respected. Now I only need to figure out how to get that...

Web 2.0

Change used to be different. Change used to come in quick jumps with platos to allow people to catch up. As technology has advanced the time people stay on the platos has shrank to almost nothing. It used to be that the average person would have to spend sixty-seventy percent of their time gathering food for themselves. I bet in the future we will spend that amount of time keeping up with the changes that have happened over night.
This is what I think Web 2.0 will be to us. It will be a radical change in education and how a person thinks of education. When the first colleges were founded they were solely about gathering knowledge and getting that knowledge into students. Today however the knowledge doesn't need to be gathered. It is everywhere. Today our studies are less about dates and facts, and more about learning how to access and find these facts and organize them, from a vast variety of sources into an immediate use. Today the most important knowledge is how to access it faster and organize it better then the next person. Therefore to stay on top on a daily basis, one must spend time learning about the new iPhone and how to use it, or the newest updates to facebook or myspace or google. These are the new skills one must master to be competitive in the marketplace and in life. This is going to change education, for one must spend time every day learning new skills. Gone are the days were we learned all the skills we would ever need in college and then used them as we progressed through life. This is the burden our children will carry, we must push our ability to evolve in order to be competitive. Education in the future will become all about learning how to learn as fast as possible.
The other skill one must learn now is not to fear, resist, or impede change but to except it with enthusiasm. It is these people that will be come leaders in the business and non business world. The people who learn to stay right at the leading edge of change.

Who Am I?

Hi, my name is Kent and I am a senior at Clemson University majoring in Philosophy. I was born and raised in Chicago, more specifically Lincoln Park. I attended a Catholic Grade school name Sacred Heart and Hardy Prep and a private High School named the Latin School of Chicago. I came to Clemson to be an engineer and to get away from cold and snow. I love it here, and am sad that I only have one school year left before I have to head out into the real world.

So a little about me... well whenever asked to define myself, I usually have a hard time and have to resort to referencing what I've accomplished and created. For are we not what we create? So here it goes.

I am a sailor, been sailing since I was 8, and I love it more then anything. I currently am part of the Serenessima race team. A team that races a Sydney 38 sailing boat out of Chicago. We compete in all local races including the 333 mile Chicago to Mackinac Race. This year, my third time doing the race, we placed 2nd in our section out of 22 boats , and 30th overall out of 325 boats.

I am a singer, I am the current President of Tigeroar, last year I was Marketing Manager, and this will be my fourth year as a member of the group. Besides Tigeroar I have been a member of Men's Glee the oldest organization on campus, created in 1893 and have been consistently active since. Currently however I am in Clemson University Singers, a mixed audition required ensemble. Its fun and keeps me off the streets.

Among other things, I am a movie lover and a movie producer. I am a actor and produced playwright, though I haven't acted since high school, I had the chance of being in 6 different productions including one which was a compilation of plays written by the cast. 3 which where written by myself. Speaking of producing, I also am a record producer for I produced Tigeroar's last album name "The Ruckus," and will receive credit on the next two upcoming CDs. Which will be released in the near future. I know what you are saying, "he must really like this producing stuff..." well I do, there is nothing like starting with nothing and making something you can hold, see, and watch others enjoy. Anyway back to me...

I was a basketball player, I used to work pretty hard at it in high school, playing on my school team which was at two different points ranked number one among single A team in the state, and a traveling team in which we travel all over the county playing in tournaments. And though we did really well winning a lot of smaller tournaments, in the really big tournaments we were never lower then 6th but never won.

Well a little about me grew to be a lot about me, but oh well, I'm an open person and always willing to share my thoughts and experiences.