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The Other Essential Workers: Parents

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date May 5, 2020
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One question that COVID-19 has brought to the forefront of our societal conversations is, Who are the essential workers?

The first professions that immediately spring to mind are obvious: doctors, nurses, firefighters, police officers. However, the pandemic has proven that there are additional tiers and classes of essential workers, including grocery store employees, delivery drivers, warehouse employees, non-frontline healthcare employees, and teachers.

My wife and I are in these last two categories.

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My Very Best Writing of 2019

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date December 16, 2019
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Is it really going to be 2020?

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The Ten Words That Changed My Life

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date December 9, 2019
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For the first time in my career, I wa s f ailing.

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Walking Away from My Dream Career Path Saved My Life

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date February 8, 2019
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“Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.”

— Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

I was dying to work for a Fortune 500 company.

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Don’t Break the Chain: The Value of Persistence

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date January 21, 2019
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I began playing organized basketball at the age of six.

By the age of ten, I was playing year-round for various travel teams in various leagues, almost always in the age bracket above mine. There was never an offseason. Camps, practices, summer leagues, fall leagues, spring leagues, open gyms – I did it all. When state rules prevented us from holding official practices, we all met at our point guard’s home and conducted practices on the full court in his backyard.

Basketball was an everyday thing.

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My Very Best Writing of 2018

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date December 13, 2018
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Another whirlwind year.

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Workaholism Is Overrated

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“My old man worked hard. All they did was give him more work.”

— Larry Wilson, Weekend at Bernie’s

There are people that take pride in being the last one at work, their car always in the parking lot, their light the only one on in an otherwise pitch-black office. Their career is their life. They’re still at their desk while the cleaning crew vacuums around them.

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The Work Is What Matters

“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.”

— Dwight Morrow

As Ryan Holiday writes in Ego Is the Enemy, John Boyd is “one of the most influential strategists and practitioners in modern warfare,” yet he’s “someone most people have never heard of.”

The fact that Boyd is unknown is fitting, because his lasting legacy is a speech he gave to scores of young officers that has come to be known as the “To Do or To Be” speech:

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Life Lessons I Learned While Working Manual Labor

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date January 10, 2018
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I lead a sedentary lifestyle. I work in an office and I read and write in my spare time. The most non-sitting that occurs in my day is my nightly routine of doing the dishes, where my six-foot-three frame has to stoop just to reach the bottom of the sink.

This general lack of movement and exertion is the only thing I miss about working manual labor.