“Find a Job That Fits Your Life” is a compassionate and empowering career guide that serves as a beacon for job seekers at all stages, offering actionable insights and tools for navigating the professional world. Why was this an important book for you to write?

I retired early from my corporate position to care for my wife, who had serious health problems. After we got those problems stabilized, I decided that I did not want to return to that type of work. Over my two previous careers I had gained a lot of knowledge about leadership and career development that I wanted to share with others. That is why I decided that it was important to write my book.

How did your combined experience from the military and the corporate world help you to provide a well-rounded perspective on career navigation?

My military experience taught me about leadership and the value and methods of planning. The strategic through tactical levels of finding a job were based on those planning methods. During my almost 20 years of corporate experience, I read thousands of resumes, conducted hundreds of interviews, and hired many people, so I put that experience to use during the final stages of my Job Fit Process. I also incorporated what I learned about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) assessment methodology from proposal writing, which I modified to help people assess their own and the market situation.

In your book, you discuss maintaining a balance between one’s social life, family, and career. Can you share some personal tips or methods that have worked for you in achieving this equilibrium?

Whereas I recognized the importance of that balance, I was not always very good at achieving it. As a Marine achieving that balance is difficult because the demands of military service can mean that you leave your family for months at a time, often with little notice. I do believe that with the proper leadership a job can be enjoyable and provide you with some of the social interactions we all need. What I believe has helped me is an ability to compartmentalize work and family. I do not know if this ability is innate or something I learned, but it allows me to focus on family when I am home, and work when I am on the job.

Beyond providing a roadmap to a dream job, how does your book assist readers in their personal growth and self-realization?

Unless you are wealthy enough to not need an income then you will have to do something to give you that needed income. If you approach deciding what that something is in a hap-hazard way (as many people do), then you put at risk your own personal growth and self-realization. Work is important, so if you treat what you are going to do to make an income in a thoughtful way you are much more likely to spend that significant portion of your life in a way that supports your personal growth and self-realization.

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