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How did you hear about Smaller Indiana?: Friend

What is your greatest strength?: I'm just fun to work with! Ok seriously (do I have to talk about myself?)

I would say...relationship building and my non-threat approach...I just try to do business the way I would want business done if I'm the client and try to have fun with what I'm doing.

In business, I like to approach things with the idea that it's a 3-legged stool (Client-Company-Me) and if one of those legs is short, the stool won't stand right and we should level it out before moving forward. Taking advantage of clients or customers only comes back to bite you in the butt when problems occur.

Outside business...I like to have fun and try to make people feel comfortable and love to laugh at situations. If you can't laugh at yourself then who can you laugh at? I like live music, summer cookouts and rooting for the Colts!

What are you working on?: Professionally: I'm into a new position with Stanley Security Solutions as an Account Manager. Spent Sept - Dec looking for a job! Trying to get fully adjusted to that.

School: I did attend, but life happend for me early and I've have over 2 years of studies completed and my intention is to get back and finish when the employment thing settles.

At Home: I coach kids...that sums it up! Both HSE 3rd Grade Girls Travel Basketball Teams as well as my 1st graders rec league team. Will be coaching 8U softball again and I'm a youth sports advocate and stay involved in my community with it.

Watching my kids grow up and trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up! :-) I also enjoy meeting new people on SI as well as out and about...so if you want to chat, hit me up...You never know when a connection will come in handy.

Personally: I'm trying to sort out some things in my life. I'll probably never really figure them all out or understand them all. I just hope I can learn from them.

How big is your business?: large company

What is your Job Title: Other

What is your Personal Website?: http://www.linkedin.com/in/miketarak

What is your alma mater?: Indiana Institute of Technology

Why join Smaller Indiana? What are you hoping to experience here ?: I hope to meet other business professionals and make some friends. You never know when someone you are connected to could be of help to you or someone else or when you'll have something in common with a new person who enters your realm.

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At 1:14pm on March 24, 2009, Shelbie Jean-Kathryn Tarter said…: Mike,
Hey I see that you went through the long job searching process like myself. Ha I am still searching for a job and need some connections if you have any ideas. Also I like your take on how you work. It sounds a lot like myself! :-D Let me know if you have anything... AT ALL! Seriously. I've been looking since December so far. Thanks bud!

-Shelbie Tarter

At 9:49pm on March 18, 2009, Brandon Bauer said…: Hello, I am new to Smaller Indiana and thought I would reach out to connect and say hello. My name is Brandon and I am the Director for Musical Medicine. We build music libraries for hospitals.

Are you planning on attending the Chocolate Blues and Business Networking Festival next Thursday? I hear it's going to be huge, they expect about 1,500 people to attend. It should be a great networking day! I have free tickets, if you need a ticket, let me know and I'll email you one. If you want more details about it, it's listed under events on the 26th.

Have a good day and I look forward to networking with you. Please let me know if I can ever do anything for you,
Brandon

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A Walk Down Memory Lane & Lesson About Life

I spent yesterday helping my sister. She's one of my best friends and runs her own business doing residential cleaning. Her oldest (a Jr. at IU) hates this job of hers and doesn't think she should be "doing that kind of work". What he fails to realize is that along with her husband (who works FT for AT&T), this business my sister runs puts him and his younger brother through college and will probably help pay for their younger sister to go as well!

So, yesterday we spent a part of our day d… Continue

Posted on November 6, 2008 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

A Day In American History....The 2008 Election

2h 25m....That's how long it took me to walk into the church , cast my vote and exit today. You are damn right I took my sticker!

Saw a few familiar faces....a few people I recognized from my neighborhood...lot's of mom's toting youngsters...and a guy in scrubs who told me IU hospital gives them 3h to vote...he had taken a vacation day to honor his civic duty.

I didn't really complain about the time it took. I actually thought about how many times in my life I wasted at least 2h30m on somethin… Continue

Posted on November 4, 2008 at 4:09pm — 3 Comments

OUTRAGE!!! You Might Be A Doctor...But It SURELY Does Not Make You Smart!

I don't know what the rules about posting AP stuff are on SI, but right now I don't really give a damn! After you read this, you too should be shocked, amazed, pissed off, sad and asking yourself a multitude of questions.

I support our 2nd Ammendment that allows us to bear arms...Personally, I don't own a gun and probably never will. I don't have any issue with those that do and 3 of my best friends all have permits and very nice looking handguns...no problems, no issues. I simply choose not to… Continue

Posted on October 28, 2008 at 11:44am — 8 Comments

It's Like A Car Wreck....You can't help but look!

My days the past month+ a few days have been filled with networking online, interviewing on the phone, meeting for face to face interviews, domestic chores, yardwork, conversations with my 4-year old Pomeranian "Sugar" that just get a "dog smile" and no response and some daytime and night time junk TV.

So let me get my daytime talk show story and reality TV show script together for you....Since 2000...I had a baby born at home that I had to deliver in our bathroom...my dad died 11 months after… Continue

Posted on October 21, 2008 at 6:39pm — 6 Comments

US Govt.....No Experience, no problem!

I'll preface this blog by stating that I'm not heavily into politics at all....I pay attention more now that I'm a little older than I was 20 years ago and we have a major Presidential election coming up. I won't debate with you about why I'll vote one way or another. This talk of Palin and Obama not having any or enough experience got me thinking after some events this past week.

What I want to talk about is this recent "Bail Out" or "Remedy" or "Rescue" or whatever the hell they want to call… Continue

Posted on October 9, 2008 at 10:44pm —

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