All Entries in the "Going to Work" Category
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 [...]
The New Reality for Kollel Support
Our parents’ generation, when kollel was a novelty, a kollel family could manage to get by with the meager kollel salary, the wife’s meager earnings, and a very simple lifestyle. Parental support, either from the husband’s or the wife’s parents, was unheard of, aside from occasional gifts. Today, the situation is vastly changed. A kollel [...]
30 Days to Get Out of Kollel Challenge
Where do you want to be in 30 days? If you do nothing, chances are that you will be in the same place that you are now. Take a 30 day challenge – there is no better time than now. In 30 days from now, bein hazmanim officially starts. The last 30 days of the [...]
Kollel is Going Extinct
During the difficult financial situation we find ourselves, kollelim are begining to close – making it very difficult if not impossible for an older yungerman to find a “well-paying” kollel that will accept him. For years, anyone who was considered good in learning and who wanted to stay in kollel “long term” was always able [...]
High Performance Achievers
In every field, there are those who do a fine job, and then there are the super elite – the high performance achievers. Albert Einstein in physics, Babe Ruth in baseball, and Warren Buffet in investing. Had they switched positions with each other, no one would have ever heard of them. Their special talents were [...]
The Summer Has Arrived – The Catskills Beckon
Ah, summer…and the memories it evokes. Country living, camp, barbeques, and everything else. But in BMG, amongst us older folks, we have the imminent departure of many friends who are heading north…to “gain experience” as rabbeyim in various camps and bungalow colonies in the country. Now I have no problem with those who are doing [...]
Post Kollel Herd Syndrome
It seems like we never do rid ourselves of the herd mentality. Even when some of us do go to work, we still have to do what everyone else is doing. An example of this: The enormous oversupply of real estate professionals in Lakewood. Take a look at the classifieds in the Lakewood Shopper, Voice, [...]
