Pursue your dreams!

This week we watched a video titled “License to Pursue Dreams”. It talked about how Google allows their employees to devote 20% of their time at work to personal projects. I had never heard of that before, but while talking to my husband about it, he said he knew they did that and thought it was a neat idea. I was really impressed by the statistics that followed later in the video. The speaker mentions that a lot of people assume that Google is just giving away 20% of that time and it doesn’t seem worth it. The actuality of it is that they are gaining creative ideas and products because the employees are passionate and motivated when choosing what they work on in that time. Amazing!

I also really enjoyed the video on Kathy Huber because her determination is very motivating to me. She was one of only a few women in the engineering program and stuck it out despite all of the interesting comments she got. I would even say she enjoyed being the odd man (woman) out! The business world is changing and it is not nearly as uncommon for women to be working these days, but I am glad that there were women out there to pave the way for women in the future. I am a wife and a mother and don’t plan to work full-time anytime soon, but I will always have my passions and interests and will pursue them in my own time.