mauiBob

Mahalo!
When you experience a tragic event early in life, you quickly realize everything else is small potatoes. We all have to go sometime, right? Might as well enjoy each day! And when you can’t wake up in the morning looking forward to a day in the office, then its time to do something different.
A hui hou.

Well, Maui is the number one island destination for marriages. It was sheer luck, fate or whatever you wanna call it on how I ended up here. I was on vacation when I applied for the open position. I actually took a pay cut; my salary at HNTB was higher. However, the 4 extra paid holidays I receive more than makes up for it. And above all…this is…[Read more]

I agree with Jay. Pursue an MBA, it will open up more opportunities beyond the construction industry. Although I love being a LA / Planner, if I had a chance to do it all over again, I would go into Business Finance with some international studies. Which by the way was my second choice behind a degree in landscape architecture. Master’s in…[Read more]

Aloha!
So I take it that you’re on salary and not hourly paid? Maybe you should do a numbers comparison and ask if you can go hourly if its in your advantage. Doing all the overtime work brings in a larger bi-weekly check, right? 
Anyway, you stay on the job and actively pursue another position. It also depends on your marital status. Easier to…[Read more]

Many of my advice has been covered by several people in here! Let me emphasis on why you are going to school…are you trying to be a Landscape Architect or Graphic/Website designer? Show me a Registered Landscape Architect who also knows advanced HTML coding and all the other technical skills website designers posses. I’m not referring to simple…[Read more]