Author Richard Hinkie featured on the talk show Briggs on Books [0:00-5:01]

Hello, this is Hope Rosky with Briggs on Books and today our special guest is Richard Hinky. Richard, welcome to the show. Oh, thank you. And your timing is terrific because there were big news on the news about careers just today. Well, I am so glad. And I know you are authored Richard Hinky, but you like to be called Rick and that's how I'm going to dress you through the show. Don't want to confuse the viewers, but Rick, your specialty is your focus is careers. And there's so many, when you talk about careers, that's such a wide topic. But within that, there's so many different sections that you have expertise. And people sometimes as they, and you are the career doctor, I know you usually have your stethoscope and your white jacket. Maybe next time. Next time, right? Well, just pretend like you have it on right now. But one of the things is, you know, people sometimes go through these transitions and careers. They are thinking, am I in the right place? Or was this, I went to college for this degree, but this is really not what I want. And they go through this internal tug of war. How do you address that internal tug of war for people who set out to be on one career path, but realize, this is not for me? Well, very wise question, first of all. I did a book earlier, and that one was more about how do you get promoted? And as I then interviewed other people after that book came out, and I just was in the Star Wars exhibit at Disney World. So I'm talking to young Disney employees about this very issue. What is it about Disney, and what is it about your life, and the gist of it is, people today, young folks in particular, are not so much wanting to be the CEO. They want a satisfaction. They want a job that they enjoy that brings, obviously we all need food on the table, you know, on a roof over ahead, that goes without saying. But there's lots of ways to do that. My expertise is not so much in the type of work, but more in whatever work you're doing, what can you do to get more out of it? What can you do to feel better about it? To get promoted if that's what you want, or new opportunities or what have you. So that's kind of the gist of it. And I had a fortunate career, things fell into place. I don't know whether I really ever had a career plan. But one of the things that young folks, anybody with careers, only eight percent ever make a career plan. Like you said, maybe in college, they thought, well, I'll take this course of study and then I'll be a journalist or I'll be a whatever, right? But it's more than that. It's more than that. What kind of organization do you want to work for? Would you work for a company that maybe doesn't have a great reputation, but pays well? Would you work for a company where it's maybe politically, way some direction that you're not you, you know, that kind of stuff? So those are part of the plan, and then what kind of daily activities do you want to do? So there's a lot of considerations, and the website, and I appreciate you guys sharing that, is just, you know, it's your seven keys dot com. And so we're not trying to sell anybody anything. There are two free downloads there. One of them is how to make a career plan. And the second one is kind of like you get a, you get an annual physical, right? Making sure that everything is good. Well, there's a forum there now called Career Checkup, Worksheet, and Checklist. So you can download that and then walk yourself as a viewer of yours, a listener of yours. You know, okay, well, you know, where am I? How am I doing? Are there things I could do better? You know, that kind of stuff. So it's all there, and it's based on, I had the pleasure over the years, everything from the Pentagon to corporate world, I ran a trade association, I worked at a Shakespeare theater with a night of the British Roundtable, et cetera. So anyway, I was fortunate, and so out of that, I picked 60 people. And I said, okay, and I'll, if you don't mind, hope you and I can roleplay here. So I'm talking to you and you tell me, well, I'm, I was a nurse's aide at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, when I first started.