Tales from the Rookies-those who were not offered a job
“I have to quit training. My muscles are too big.”
Cockiness and excuses are bad traits by themselves, in combination they are even worse (but funny!).
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“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you, you are wrong. There are always difficulties rising, which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end, requires some of the same courage…
Living on a raft…
It’s lovely to live on a raft and sometimes we’d have that whole river to ourselves for the longest time.” -Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain Tweet
Why we paddle…
There is something you get out of paddling that you can’t get in any other sport. It’s finding the happy balance with an always changing force of nature, and it makes you feel very small yet powerful at the same time.” Shannon Caroll
“There’s the life for a man like me”
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There’s the life for a man like me, There’s the life for ever. – Robert Louis Stevenson…
Office Hours for March 10 to April 9, 2012
Sorry for any inconvenience. Mountain Whitewater will have modified office hours from March 10 until April 9m 2012. The Director of Fun is going on a Grand Canyon rafting trip and will not be available during that time. We will have staff in the office most Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, occasionally Mondays. If you cannot…
Risk Managment
Everywhere I went I tried to learn, assimilating the positive qualities of various employers, even if I didn’t admire all their traits. I learned from Raiders owner Al Davis, the man who fired me four games into the 1989 season. When I was around him, I would ask myself, “why has he won three Super…