Jason S. Harry

Driving With Emotional Intelligence On President’s day this year, I was reading my local newspaper when I came across an article about emotional intelligence. Since it was Presidents Day, it had to do with our Presidents, past and present, and their respective levels of emotional intelligence, or EQ. Being a fan of the EQ quotient, I had to read it. I just like the word ‘emotional intelligence’. Certain words (or phrases) have a positive connotation, like hearing the word “Daddy!” being yelled from small people when I walk in the door after being on the road a few days. Some others have a more negative feeling to them (especially when uttered from my dispatchers mouth), take for example “Pittsburgh” or worse yet, “Philadelphia”! What really does the term ‘emotional intelligence’ mean anyway? Wikipedia’s basic definition is: “The ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking an...

IT AIN’T ABOUT THE MONEY: LEARNING TO SAY NO! Late December of last year, I pulled my pay envelope out of my mailbox and glanced at the year-to-date total at the bottom corner, something I rarely do. “Holy Geez, are you kidding me?” I remember thinking at the time. It was a fairly big amount and I wondered where it all went! A Wife and five kids, along with a fairly nice home are completely acceptable ways to soak it all up. What really got to me, was the fact that it never seemed like so called ‘work’ to rack up such an amount of change in twelve months time! Lucky me, to have such a job that is so enjoyable that it’s hardly like work. In my eyes, I drive around in a very nicely equipped 2008 Volvo truck that is a dream to drive and is near a work of art going down the road, at least when it is clean and not made disgusting by the wrath of winter. The money I make is simply a byproduct of all the good times I have out and about. Quite often, I still think how lucky I am to have an op...