Spring Grove careers

two middle age men at Paper Mill
2014: me and Mike Hoover, both from SGHS class of ’77. One left Spring Grove at first opportunity and one stayed.

Had i made Spring Grove our permanent home, probably would have worked in a factory or worked for a landscape business. The thought or concept of management never crossed my mind.

All i was certain of, after tasting college life, was that i needed to get out of Spring Grove. It felt small-minded, way too traditional, and short on opportunity.

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Avoiding career trauma

Spring Grove, PA
At the bottom of Main Street, next to the railroad tracks and the Paper Mill is this Apartment complex (an old hotel) where i lived as a toddler.

The most remarkable workers are the ones who are irrationally passionate about being remarkable.

Being remarkable is doing the same work that others do, but in a way that is different, refreshing, and better. The better and different way is generally created by taking small risks to incrementally improve the traditional way. No one notices as it is being formed, until one day. These “changers” are called misfits, the crazy ones, the round pegs in a square hole, the dreamers.

To not perform remarkably, for them, would be trauma to their career.

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Old School, Got Dreams?

Got Dreams?
Got Dreams?

“You’ve been thinking like an adult since you were a kid”, she said in response to a story I had shared from my youth.

Told her about wanting to be a Physical Education teacher to help make people healthier, and help make the world a better place. I was in 8th Grade.

So here we are 37 years later, back on the mission to help make the world a healthier place.

Got dreams?