The Only Fields That Matter ~ A Narrative from the Great Recession
easy download from the kindle store. relevant even more in 2025!
The Only Fields That Matter is my first book, self-published in October 2014. Heading to 2025, it now appears my workplace projections of bio-discrimination are occurring - with things like DEI in full practice. I expose bio-profiling in the place we should least expect: the hiring process. My story, shared by millions of working people, comes straight out of my daily journal while job searching in Nashville, Tennessee. The 2008-2012 Great Recession will re-align the labor market. Ideological and cultural change is inevitable, behavioral assessments and our brain are all the rage.
The Only Fields reads like a movie as I take the reader into a hyper-aggressive career search. Family issues cripple us, hours of strengthening my son's sports skills are possible but financial challenges, American value changes and technologies are changing the workplace and every place.
My urgent plea to educators and parents: prepare students for the software-selected workforce.
Since the 2008 Recession, securing employment requires facing invasive predictive software to assess our thoughts, IQ, social media participation, emotional intelligence, innovative traits, new behavioral psychometrics and deep background search from vast data sources.
Beyond the dull drone of recessionary statistics, in places without paths nor human voices, a future was beginning to unfold: in the only fields that matter.
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3 short-read fictions are now available at the kindle eBook store"
> The Bucket Man is a short-fiction narrated from a homeless man's perspective - based on an actual site, it will touch your heart as his story takes a most unusual tone and ending.
> The Garden Man: a retired gentleman experiences his new life through the lens of nature's providence. His neighbors become like a new world to investigate; they will listen, converse and participate in all his ruminations as he discovers his busy, ever-adapting, ever comical community.
>Men's Poetry Night is my first humor writing. During the pandemic of 2020 a small town finds a small group of men meeting on Thursday nights once a month to read some very entertaining poems they have composed. The group grows and so does the fun.