Life doesn’t slow down when you’re in transition. As I search for my next professional opportunity, I’m also managing the complex realities of modern life—a balancing act that so many of us experience but don’t always talk about. I wanted to put my situation out there since I cannot imagine I am alone in these challenges.
Right now, I’m:
- An Assistant Scoutmaster helping guide my three sons and their troop. One of my boys is spending five weeks working at Many Point, sailing off the coast of Florida, and was chosen as one of two troop representatives for leadership training. All three are working hard on their Scouting advancements.
- Helping my kids build a musical future, with a house filled with music, saxophone, clarinet, guitar, soon-to-be trombone concerts, and the glorious cacophony of thieir practice, practice, practice.
- Balancing sports, braces, schoolwork, tutoring, keeping the house clean and raising three good boys in this world. (My youngest is 10-0 in basketball!).
- Caring for my elderly mother, who relies on limited assistance while the programs that support her are being canceled one by one by this administration.
- Supporting my father however I can for our family, who recently lost my 103-year-old grandmother, and now helping my stepmother through cancer treatment (please pray for her, she is in the ICU right now).
- Supporting my wife, whose esophagus is paralyzed from Achalasia, leaving her unable to eat.
- Recovering from a brain injury less than two years ago—still putting the pieces back together (always wear your bike helmet, I was and it likely saved my life).
- Rebuilding our basement—after a flood a year ago, I took on the project myself: framing, running electrical, installing flooring, adding a wet bar, and creating feature walls. Just as I was finishing… our water heater failed, flooding it again.
And in the midst of all this, I’m looking for my next role—a place where I can bring my leadership, experience, and process-driven mindset to a team that values collaboration and structured problem-solving.
Through all these challenges, I remind myself of the values I’ve built my career on—resilience, structure, and forward-thinking problem-solving. Whether in IT, Scouting, or home projects, I believe in being proactive, creating structured solutions, and showing up for the people who need me.
If you’ve navigated job searching while managing life’s curveballs, I’d love to hear your perspective. And if you know of a company that values experience, resilience, and leadership, I’d love to connect.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me during this transition—I appreciate it more than I can say.
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