Category: Purposeful Career

Pei Mun Lim’s career development program.

  • Protect your intellectual property: creativity as wealth

    Recently, I’ve learned that just because you show something all the love and loyalty that you have doesn’t mean that that love will be reciprocated. Especially when it comes to corporate entities.

  • Experience as perspective: The Golden Rule at work

    Nobody likes bad surprises. Especially avoidable ones. Even moreso when that bad surprise impacts a vested interest. Nobody wants to be sold a false bill of goods. Thinking about the person on the other side of the interaction can assist with working towards common understandings. Managing Expectations Understanding and communicating the quirks and limitations of…

  • When I think about the reason for modern conflict in this world, I usually think about either land grabs or wars over race. At the same time, I’ve always known through my studies that some of the most ruthless battles in history have been fought over religion. Groups wish to flaunt their ideological supremacy over…

  • I messed up a couple of years ago. I am a selfish person in that I have a tendency to lock in on a decision before consulting those I love. I am quick triggered and I regularly act like I have nothing to lose. For most of my life, this has 100% been the case.…

  • Every story has a backstory forged through experience, and everybody has their own story to tell. This attempts to detail how I intend on keeping my online presence as authentic to my character as I can. I always had a hard time determining my values and finding my purpose throughout my teens and twenties because…

  • 1. Day in the Life Narrative This is an example of how I envision my life going in 2028. To preface, I fully anticipate having a remote career by then. My ideal day would start at 6:00 by waking up, taking a shower, and making coffee, followed by waking the girls up for school and…

  • Seven Career Stories 1. In college, I was part of the spirit band that played at basketball games. We got a gig before a New Orleans Hornets game sponsored by Zatarain’s. We provided much of the soundtrack for the folks walking in to the New Orleans arena that day. I was a trombonist, and there…

  • I’m just a dude trying to live a righteous life by my own standards. I’m originally from Rapid City, South Dakota, the second biggest town in a state that people have only ever heard of because of a racist carving some presidents into rocks up the hill from my childhood home. My background has been…

  • Hi everyone. This is going to be a post without an outline, timeline, or really much connection to anything. This post is a stream of consciousness. So I got my Salesforce Certified Admin 9 days ago. I worked my ass off during that time to achieve it. It did not come without sacrifice, as I…

  • If you know me, you know that nothing in life ever goes to plan. Ever. That necessitated the requirement for picking up soft skills and highly transferrable ones. It’s been pretty common knowledge for the last decade that Salesforce is attempting to solve any business need that you can possibly imagine. With this level of…