All Entries in the "Going to Work" Category
Where is the Shortage Exactly? (It’s not what you’d think…)
There are probably no official statistics, but if someone were to calculate a total of all new chinuch positions that were created this year and subtract the positions that were eliminated, there is most likely a net loss this year. For the first time in decades, there were more chinuch positions lost due to firings [...]
Starting a Business from the Ground Up
Kollel guys looking to go work don’t have the wealth of choices that are available to most American college grads entering the work force. A college grad however, has many choices. Most of them will start their careers by using their degree to get themselves a “starter job”, which they hope to use as a [...]
Son Apologizes for His Dead Father Not Learning in Kollel
If I wouldn’t have seen it myself, I would not believe it. I recently attended the levaya of the father of one of my friends back in yeshiva, who was tragically niftar at the young age of 61 after suffering from cancer. He was a person that loved to learn Torah, and devoted many hours [...]
Don’t Even Know Where to Begin
I received a letter from a concerned aunt of a 30 year old Lakewood yungerman. She wrote: How is a young man of 30 to leave kollel when all he can do is work in a very menial job, when he has little English skills, a bit of arithmetic, and no experience in dealing with [...]
Day # 8 (and beyond): Back to Routine?
Every year it seems that we go through the same routine. Cry our heads off during viduy, promise to do better, and then life comes back to routine. Is there any meaning to all of it, if on Tuesday morning we all go back to our old selves? The truth is that there is hardly [...]
Day # 4 – Relationship with Friends & Relatives
Leaving kollel invariably will cause a stir amongst your friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and relatives. Its not every day that a serious learner picks himself up and goes out to work. During these Aseres Yemei Tshuva, you should make it a point to decide how to deal with all this gossip and incredulous stares that you [...]
Day # 3 – Open Communication with Your Wife
After you established your own goals and priorities and bolstered your spiritual faith, its time to work on the most important person in your life – and that would be your wife. Leaving kollel often places a huge stress on your shalom bayis. First of all, there is the turmoil that you are facing, which [...]
Loving Your Work vs. a J-O-B
Ask anybody if it is important that a person love their work. It their answer is yes, most likely that person has a positive attitude on life, and is a high achiever. But if they answer no, most likely they hate their work and are only there because they feel trapped by their reliance on [...]
Summer Vacation = Vacate from Learning (R”L)
Leaving kollel is often referred to as “leaving learning”, meaning of course, that when a person leaves kollel to go work, he is no longer solely occupied with learning, and will be spending a large part of his day occupied with worldly matters. However, there is a sinister undertone to this expression which lends much [...]
Anyone Can Start a Business
Let’s talk tachlis – there are many fields you can go into that can turn into a successful source of parnossah for your family, without having to go to college.What you go into should be largely dependent on your personality, skill sets, and income potential. I already explained how you should be using this time [...]
