Why human structures function

Trust. One word. Trust.

I'm sick with the flu, so I'm sitting at home watching people outside go about their daily business - wives going to work / shopping, children to school, gardening services starting their daily pruning / mowing / etc. and I'm sitting here thinking, why?

The why is easy - someone told them to, someone expects / requires it of them, a myriad of other reasons, but the end requirement is the same - a chain of expectation. The real trick here for me is the how - how does this happen seamlessly, regularly, constantly?

This is where trust comes into it for me - the trust that an owner has that his gardening employees will mow those lawns, that trust a husband has that his wife will co-earn an income / go shopping for necessities / take the kids to school(and vice versa), the trust that a home owner has in the person cleaning / managing their home. The trust that a company has in their employees performing their assigned roles.

Trust allows, nay forces us, not to look over someone's shoulder, but gives us the freedom to let them be trustworthy while showing ourselves to be trustworthy. It makes for a much better productivity generator than fear / supervision. It allows people to grow, achieve self-worth, it allows the wheels to spin.

Trust - what a wonderful concept - let's show ourselves first, and then others, that we are trustworthy and that they too can be trustworthy.

Blogging

Okay

So Blogging isn't all it's cracked up to be, at least to me. Forgetting where your blog is, isn't a good start now is it. But I'm back, and I'm going to try for some more :-)

Had an awesome start to the day - got up at 5:40 and went to a prayer meeting - man it was amazing, but the flesh is inherently weak and I did not want to get up when I went to bed. The most amazing thing though, by 5:30 I was awake and by awake I mean Not Sleepy. God is good.

Anyhow - back to work. Creating a dynamic SQL builder using a database for a dynamic search filter - fun but keeping me challenged.

Here I go...

New Job

Okay.

So I started a new job yesterday. The old one wasn't too bad, I just had differing views on certain ethical standpoints, but that was not my main reason for going. My main reason was this:

Growth potential.

The "job world" we currently live in, even though we just went through a financial crisis, shifts at an amazing speed. I myself am an engineer in an IT industry with varying challenges:

1. New technologies
2. New clients
3. New methodologies
4. Etc

And some days the only way to get new exposure is to move jobs. I'm not saying it is the only way, but when your primary client has taken a liking to a certain technology, well, then you are pretty much stuck.

For that reason, I'm moving back into Object Orientation, in this case ASP, ASP.Net and C#. I am seriously excited :-)

It will be a challenge - all changes requires a challenge, but I'm going all in, full on and I'm going to make the best of this.

The key for me? God. The favour and the blessing and the protection of God.

Stay tuned for more.

First Attempt

So...

Supposedly this is one of those things that people do that performs one of multiple functions:

1. Enriches their lives.
2. Enriches other peoples lives.
3. Etc.

I, will be using this as an experiment to see whether it is worth my while, but also whether it is truly a useful creative outlet?

More to come...