Today, I finished a 2 1/2 year stint at VitalConnect. While I am super-excited to be moving on to the next stage of my medical technology career, I’m sad to be leaving such an amazing company, full of amazing, talented people. Thankfully, I was given several weeks to finish things…

In just a couple months, many of my friends will discover that the noble profession of medicine has not given them the proverbial middle finger, and that they will shortly be matched to a teaching hospital in a part of the U.S. where they would dare to step foot. Congrats…

One of the volunteer activities that I’ve had the joy of being involved in for the past several years is the mentorship program put on by USC’s engineering school. It’s been neat to hear how things are going on campus, to find out which amazing/terrible/eccentric professors are still teaching, and…

2018 can be summed up as the year of learning to walk by faith and not by sight. I don’t think I’ve ever been so anxious and prayed so hard about the uncertainties of my life than I have this past year, but God has been faithful for all 365 days. As I look ahead to 2019, I know it’ll be another year of uncertainty, but with God’s help and leading, what will happen this year will blow away any of my expectations.

Back when I graduated from college, I selfishly and naively thought that every job other than a well-paying engineering job was below me.
It took four painful, humbling, but growing years in the middle of a deep recession to shatter this self-centered paradigm and see every experience as an important part of my development as a person. In his book, Quitter, author Jon Acuff refers to such experiences as parallels: opportunities to ask “how can this job/experience impact my dream?“