Work Better Today (WBT) Introduction
Learn about our career development publication; from Randy Mahoney, Jr. ; Work Better Today #1 -- January 2024
Introduction
Hello to you, Substack reader. Welcome to Work Better Today (WBT). I’m glad you’re here! With this, my first Substack newsletter, I wanted to write and set the stage for who I am and what you can expect in my updates.
About Me (And Quickly)
If you’ve not heard about me before, I can give you a quick synopsis. I’m Randy Mahoney, Jr., and my passion for career development comes from my own personal journey of making both good and bad career decisions.
My background includes work in church settings, nonprofit agencies helping students with disabilities, warehouse-type work, working in an addiction treatment facility, developing a career coaching business, and also more recently work in higher education. I’ve been assisting adults about career choices since 2017, and I wholeheartedly believe part of my mission is to serve and help adults work in a positive way, serving other people using their God-given gifts. Beyond this, my background also includes work in media production, and in addition to writing words I’ve been podcasting about career development since 2020 (more details and links on that below).
Why This Platform
That’s a great question. In my life of career coaching, working in the field of career development, and pursuing online writing sporadically since 2017, I have used a variety of writing platforms. But, in 2024, I have decided I wanted to work more intentionally to: (A)develop my writing habit; and (B)steer it towards continuing to serve and help adults work to serve others using their uniquely designed gifts.
In short, think of this publication as a go-to source for longer-writing as well as more quick-and-scannable-words from me, as an offshoot to my other projects that I work on related to career development. If you feel so inclined, you can check these out below…
*My Career Podcast, “The Work With Purpose Podcast”, which has been active since 2020 (our new season starts January 26th, 2024 on your favorite podcast app)
*One recent career e-book I’ve written on making a resume master file for your job search [FREE DOWNLOAD; Links to external site]
*Another career ebook on job searching [FREE DOWNLOAD; Links to external site]
Though this post is free along the Substack guidelines, you can expect that there will posts from me will include a mix of paid and free career development and education content. Posts may be a majority of free ones at first, but expect that to change as 2024 moves on, possibly having a handful of posts being paid-only.
Free-focused posts on this publication may include updates about my forever-free podcast, “The Work With Purpose Podcast”, which has been around since 2020. You can be assured posts focused on my career podcast will be free, as that’s a resource I’ve developed to be free on purpose to serve and help adults in their career decisions.
Paid posts from me through WBT could take the following forms…
*Longer-form written articles;
*Possibly posts with audio-based teaching on career content; or
*Something else entirely.
Posting Schedule
In you reviewing Work Better Today (WBT), I think it’s also important that you know what you can expect about when you’ll see updates from me. At this point, for the year 2024, you can plan for the following roughed-out schedule for posts from me which is included below…
* x1 post / month, going from January to the end of August 2024
*A final “publication update post” or “ state of the publication post” during August 2024, to close out the publication for the year
*Publication will plan to be on a break August through the end of December 2024, and set to tentatively come back the following January
This may change, but for now the schedule will follow the same schedule as my career podcast does.
Wrap-Up, What Next, And Consider Supporting My Work
Now that you know a bit more about me and why I’m endeavoring to write WBT, I want to say thank you for reading. Beyond that, know I am wishing you and your family a successful 2024, both in your work and the other aspects of your life.
If you are excited to learn more on making better work and career decisions from here, I invite you to subscribe here using the form at the bottom of this page so you don’t miss a post from me.
Though this is a free-to-read post, I also want to invite you, as another option, to consider supporting my work here, as my career development efforts are not free for me to produce. Thank you in advance for your support.
Until my next post, I want to encourage you from here — you’ve been made with purpose, so work with purpose. And yes, that even means you can work better today, right where you are.
Have a great week!
—Randy