Last night I enjoyed the wonderful opportunity to get reconnected with some friends I hadn’t spoken with in over 5 years. You know that kind of conversation? Great people you’d like to stay in touch with, but it just hasn’t seemed to work out that way. But within 2 minutes, you feel like you’re reconnected as if you had spoken …
2022 Blessings with 2023 Expectations
December 27, 2022
Written by: Dave Sparkman |
Reading Time: 2 minutes
As Crossroads Career closes out 2022, Psalms 98:1 resonates with me, “Sing the Lord a new song, for He has done marvelous things….” And so many things…some planned, but many unforeseen through our human goal-setting and prioritization process! Grateful for THAT! If you’re like me looking back at 2022, many things were accomplished and yet there are so many …
Gifts from Crossroads Career: Replace what’s been lost
December 06, 2022
Written by: Crossroads Career |
Reading Time: 2 minutes
What is the number one thing I’ve seen people lose during a job transition? This question, along with many others, are just part of what Crossroads Career is here to answer. Keep reading, and I’ll get to the answer! 🙂 In the YouVersion Bible app, for the year 2022, they reported that the Bible verse most highlighted and shared through …
The Gifts from Crossroads Career: Hope and Encouragement
November 29, 2022
Written by: Elise Hartmann |
Reading Time: 2 minutes
It was 2020, the pandemic was in full swing and unemployment had hit its all-time high in years. Unfortunately my husband and I experienced this when we both lost our jobs. After months and months of searching, struggling and praying, we came across a posting for an unemployment group offered through our church. Without hesitation, we both signed up. Little …
I was working as the head of IT Infrastructure at a medium size medical device company. Everything was going great. I had an awesome team and great coworkers. This all changed when the company was acquired. About six months after the acquisition, I started looking for new opportunities and found a great one. I wanted to take some time off …
Work shapes so much of life, and yet it can be difficult to think about, confusing to develop a good perspective on, and scary to search for a great fit throughout different seasons. Why is this thing we were made for so hard to understand, find joy in, and accomplish faithfully? After graduating from college, I found myself in circumstances …
When Bad Becomes Good: Finding Meaning in the “Negative’ Events
September 10, 2020
Written by: Crossroads Career |
Reading Time: 4 minutes
We continue to see stories regarding the fallout caused by COVID-19. Children are out of school. Patrons are forgoing restaurants and are flooding grocery stores. Toilet paper is bought at alarming rates. Millions have been ordered to shelter-in-place. Despite so much uncertainty and with lives indefinitely upended, people and communities have been coming together to support one another. There are …
Have you ever had an experience that has been seared into your memory? For example, I remember where I was on January 29, 1986, when the Challenger exploded, and when the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11, 2001.
Last week, I went on a road trip across the US driving over 1,500 miles from Arizona to Washington. My dad and mom sold their house and were moving back closer to family. Taking a road trip during this time was a unique experience. Difficult to get food as restaurants were closed, walk thru the drive thru Hotels were not …
Take Precautions with the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19
May 05, 2020
Written by: Crossroads Career |
Reading Time: 3 minutes
When I was a Chemical Corps Officer in the United States Military, my specialty was Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare (NBC), Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).