Life at the Helm

I started writing Life at the Helm with an inaugural post about how I came about naming the blog in the first place.  At the time, I had no idea if I would be writing one post a year let alone more frequently.  For some, writing is a lot like public speaking especially if they know it has a chance of being read by others.  Why write a blog if you are afraid of someone reading it?  That is likely another post entirely.  Blogs exist for different reasons; if you research it even a little you will find that there are hundreds of reasons – fun, education, sales, marketing and even griping.  As a recruiter by profession, I talk with thousands of people every year in the course of doing my work and with the onset of the Internet Age and the accessibility to information about nearly everything you ever wanted to know about at your fingertips, people expect to be able to go onto the Internet and find out more about me.

I can’t blame them, as for every time I look to buy something, travel somewhere or eat at a new restaurant, I conduct some quick research on the Internet and read reviews and other information about it.  It is a bit odd when you find nothing – almost an indication that you should wait on that one.  When you do find it, there is always a predominance of information that would have you leaning one way or another – kind of like asking the audience for assistance on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” and as you know, the majority always falls on the “final answer”.

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