My name is P. L. Bolden, I have worked in the corporate world for nearly two decades primarily as an Information Technologist in the banking industry. However, if someone were to ask me what I remember most in this industry. It would not be the cold and detached nature of this business, but rather to believe beyond oneself. Good things are going to happen and bad things are going to happen, but in the grand scheme of life these singular events constantly exploding and imploding into our everyday existence is not the defining of us. It is merely the collective reality of those snippets of time that like a pebble being tossed into a pond creates a ripple effect. Therefore, we cannot be defined by other people standards, because we are that defining nature by which things are emulating from. I wrote a book that I hope will truly bless the lives of everyone reading it called "The Employee Blue Book". It was written during a very difficult time in my life where I had to make some tough decisions about my career. I have always tried to play by the book and follow the rules, because that was how I understood success to work. Unfortunately, that perception could not be further from the truth and the consequences of that disillusioned reality nearly decimated my career. Thankfully, I was able to learn from those hard lessons and to create something positive for people to use in their own journey toward becoming their better selves. Those lessons are now shared as snippets in the book under something called, "Good Banks Behaving Badly". Which oddly enough is the title of my second book about the corruptible lifestyle of a banking institution told from the perspective of a former bank employee named Jasal Calhoun. In this book the focus is on providing a foundation for people in the workforce, entering the workforce or trying to figure out their own journey as college students, a stay at home parent or someone seeking reemployment. The foundation is the most important part of what your building, so if you don't have a solid foundation. It becomes very easy to fall into the same traps I did progressing through my professional career. Let's be frank - there are things that they just don't teach you in school and the corporate school of hard knocks is not the place you want to learn them, because it is relentless and unforgiving. When I started writing this book it was as a roadmap for myself, then I realize the same blueprint could actually help other people.