Author Richard Hinkie featured on the talk show Briggs on Books [20:06-25:06]

Or, you know what, I'm not retiring at all, but I'm looking forward to additional challenges. And the world is changing, as I shared with you when we first started. There are lots of different shifts that are out there. And AI, you know, people are afraid, was it going to take my job? And you know, hey, I'm an author, is AI going to take my job, right? That's the purpose of this. And the other thing is just to be clear, you know, authors write for different reasons. And that's terrific. Gee, I'm proud of them all. Just to be clear, in my case, the purpose of this is literally pay it forward. If, if, I had to rely on you, and Mike knows this better than anybody, if an independent author ever makes any money from his efforts, all of that for me goes to my local charity. And the charity pays for high school kids to go to the community college while they're in high school. We live in kind of a, not super poor, but not very wealthy area either. And my beloved state of Arizona is not good about funding public education. In fact, it's the worst state in the union. So these kids can, would typically go to college as a junior in college. From high school, because we've helped them get the courses they don't have at their high school at the community college. So that's just me, but the point of this is, you know, it's not about enriching me off the other end. It's trying to share back. Because all these 60 people that shared with me, I mean, they spent hours with me telling me about their lives and what happened and whatever. So I just want to thank them for that and literally pay that forward. I just, I just saw one of my things is listening to people who've gone through it. So we're not going to do it from scratch. Other people have been through stuff. We want to listen to them and kind of learn from them. One is Richard, and he's talked to so many people who are leaders in their area. And we want to see, you know, listen to them as well. Going on forward, Richard, some of the things I might want to talk to on this series is building your relationships, starting back in high school or even college, deciding what job you want. I don't know if you have to decide before you start college, what job or career you want, but I'd like to discuss that a little bit. And also the building of relationships as you go along that might help you out later in life. Yeah, well yeah, and to add to your, that's a great list. To add to that, you know, once you get, let's just say you end up being an engineer. And so that's who you are and you graduate and you go to work and you're doing engineering things, right? Well, maybe at some point in the future, you're going to start having a team. Well, and I love engineers believe me, don't get me wrong here, but there are certain technical types of jobs that are so focused on data and engineering and math and whatever. So now leading people or guiding people or having a team, there are new skills, right? Well, you might even be a 50-year-old, one of the guys that I interviewed was that kind of engineer, right? And he admitted he was kind of stuck on those things. And then he went to his boss, the head of engineering, he said, I want to join the sales department for a while. And his boss had waxed, and the reason for that was this guy was doing engineering drawings for customers. And he said, I would want more time with the customers so I can do a better job of being an engineer. So, you know, there are things that you can talk about how you grow in your career, how to add those kind of skills, relationships. And then today, another thing Mike, we can talk about is, you know, there's a lot of young folks that have kind of been maybe sheltered a little. You know, so there may be a little reluctant to take a chance. Yes. You know, wow, you know, I don't want to, you know, so there are things we can help folks do that. You know, my brother was huge in that. I remember he, what he was asked to go before the board and talk about a new line of windows, but he brought his number two along, and he said, no, you are going to make the presentation. And the guy went, oh my god, I can't do that. But he did, and did very well at it, because my brother coached him through that process. Very good. But being a coach, being a mentor, that's another topic, Mike. We can talk about is, you know, little bit about how it works for you, but then how you can pay back by being a mentor. Absolutely, yes.