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Steve Balzer Steve Balzer is the master brewer at a microbrewery at a private club in Kona, Hawaii. Balzer says he enjoys the independence and collaboration with local farmers that working at a microbrewery allows. This is what his job is like, as told to freelance writer Natasha Bazika. I d started brewing beer when I was 21 at college in Oregon and kept doing it as a passion. After graduating from college in the 2008 economy crash, I didn t have much luck job-wise. My degree was in marketing and economics, and while I initially had a job lined up, after graduation I was laid off before I even started, so I worked part-time jobs and brewed on the side. After four years of unstable temporary jobs, I decided to go back to college. I enrolled in Siebel Institute of Technology out of Munich, Germany, and Chicago for a masters of brewing. ....
Time Life Pictures/NASA/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Entrepreneurs can grow their problem-solving skills by emulating the tactics used by the Apollo 13 NASA engineers. Avoid panicking, and take a step back to assess and understand the situation or problem at hand. Weigh each potential solution carefully, but once you ve made a choice, commit and don t second-guess your decision. Entrepreneurs are inherently problem-solvers. After all, we start our businesses because we recognize a need that needs to be filled. Take me, for instance: Part of my previous job at an internet media company was to create tools for editors to build forms, surveys, and polls. The problem was that at the time, the form-building landscape offered few good options. I decided to change that, and my company, JotForm, was born. ....
SDI Productions/Getty Debra Roberts is an author, licensed clinical social worker, and business consultant based in New York. She explains there are several easy ways to get people to like you over Zoom and virtual meetings. Roberts says to be yourself, show your authentic personality, and be an active and engaged listener. Most of us put pressure on ourselves to perform when we meet other people, whether at work or in a social setting, because we want them to like us. These days during the pandemic many first meetings are happening over Zoom . Debra Roberts is an author and licensed clinical social worker. ....
Photo: Inna Lila Dave Nemetz is a cofounder of Bleacher Report and the founder of Inverse and writes a weekly newsletter on media and startups. The following is a recent post, republished with his permission. In it, Nemetz explains why founders calling startups their baby makes them overly attached and resistant to change. After selling my first company, something disorienting started happening. As I thought about what to do next, I took a lot of meetings. Caught up with people in my network. Had exploratory conversations. We d start with small talk focused on the recent acquisition. I didn t stay long after the deal closed. After experiencing the arrival fallacy, I needed a mental break. ....