Joe Grabowski

Coach | Futures Trader | Writer | Former Recruiter

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[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

A lot of new followers lately, so it seems like a good time to reintroduce myself:

- I graduated from Michigan State University, and I played lacrosse while I was there.

- I've been married for 15 years. My wife and I own a small horse farm in Southeast Michigan.

- I've spent my entire professional life (17+ years) in the recruiting industry. I've worked in internal/corporate, staffing/staff augmentation, and Recruitment Process Outsourcing/RPO.

- I've worked with businesses of all sizes, but I enjoy working with startups and SMBs more.

- I've managed teams of all sizes for over half of my career. The largest team I've managed was global and 30+ people.

- Coaching, mentoring, and personal development are important to me. Helping people achieve their goals and be the best version of themselves are passions of mine.

- Health and fitness are very important to me. When I'm not working on my business, you can find me at the gym, either working out or training others.

I enjoy networking and getting to know other people, so please feel free to reach out at any time.

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

Makes sense. YM is boring, but I only trade ES, so I watch NQ and YM at the same time because they typically drive ES (moreso NQ because tech stocks heavily make up SPY). Only a theory through observation, but it seems like a lot of NQ fakeouts are when YM order flow isn't aligned so I was just wondering.

[America First Legal @America1stLegal]

/1🚨EXPOSED — Biden CIA’s War on Motherhood:

Newly released CIA documents reveal the Biden Administration identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators of “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@masternumber 9 LP
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[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@randomrecruiter Atta boy! Enjoy the trip!

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@randomrecruiter Congrats on the new role, homie!

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

Unsolicited, but FWIW, it might be time to do some more soul searching to figure out what it is you actually want to do, whether it's recruiting or otherwise.

Recruiting builds plenty of transferrable skills, and if you don't love recruiting anymore, every day is going to be a grind, and you won't feel fulfilled (took me 15+ years to realize this because I was having success/making a lot of money, but something was still missing).

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@randomrecruiter Dude! Way to go! Keep up the great work!

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@randomrecruiter You're on the right path, homie. Keep up the great work!

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@jenwiderberg Congratulations and best of luck in your new role!

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

I've been in recruiting (not HR, there's a difference) for 20 years across multiple industries..both third-party and corporate/internal...

The experience discussed in the video is too vague to draw a conclusion, but here's what I can offer:

There are bad actors in recruiting and HR who are jaded enough to decline someone for using AI on a resume. It depends on the person and company, but it can make for some weird gatekeeping. The EEOC and associated laws are supposed to keep that in check through the use of Applicant Tracking Systems.

Generally, there shouldn't be an issue with using AI to help write a resume, but you still need to ensure A) You're a fit for the job/have relevant experience and B) that experience is clearly communicated on your resume.

If you need to use AI as a tool to help with that, no issue. If you're using AI to churn out a generalized resume that doesn't include relevant experience or highlights why someone should speak with you further, you're doing yourself a disservice - it's not on the recruiter/company...it's on you.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague." Please Share

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@randomrecruiter Atta boy! Enjoy the trip!

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@randomrecruiter As someone who has traveled a similar path, I cannot support this enough!

[Inferam @InferamAI]

Me, helping my wife shop. 😅

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@randomrecruiter Ha, I appreciate it. Being a partner in a gym and spending 30+ hours/week training/coaching probably gives me an unfair advantage because nobody is going to take a fat trainer seriously. 🤣

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

A little backstory here...

Back in the fall, I was speaking with one of the clients I train about discipline, workout schedule, and nutrition...

As we got into the conversation, the client mentions "All of this is easy for you. You're already in shape and have a routine. It's different for me."

If you know anything about me, I don't do well with excuses, and I'm always down for a challenge.

A conversation in September set me on a journey from November through today.

Starting in November, I continued to lift 4x/week, but I didn't do cardio and did a "dirty bulk"/didn't follow a meal plan for 5 months.

The result was me gaining 20+lbs (216lbs > 237lbs)...added some size and strength, but it was a lot of bad weight.

In April, we had another conversation about how with focused work, I could take all of that off and then some.

The pictures at the bottom were measurements and a progress shot from the middle of April. The pictures up top are from this weekend (5 weeks into the plan).

Here's what I've done:

- Went back to hitting 10K+ steps/day.

- Paired that up with a low calorie (1600/day)/low carb (60g/day)/low fat (38g/day) and high protein (221g/day) meal plan. I am a certified nutritionist and am working with another nutritionist who has been doing this 40+ years to make sure I'm staying safe.

- Continued to lift 4x/week

Here are the results 5 weeks in:

- Measured body fat % via calipers went from 8.85% to 6.4% (I'm not claiming to be 6.4% - average caliper variance is 3.5%-5%).

- Down 16lbs since the start (I took 10lbs off prior to starting challenge because as a former fat guy, the number on the scale got to me).

- Body fat lbs went from 20.11lbs to 13.64lbs (and dropping - I was between chart measurements on the body fat chart we use).

- I've found that I'm not only able to manage this meal plan to cut, I can easily move this into maintenance once I get to where I want to be.

No, it isn't easy.

Yes, life is going to get in the way (and it has).

Continued focused work toward a goal will always yield better results than temporary motivation.

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions, thoughts, ETC. feel free to leave them here or send me a DM.

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@JDoor23 Focusing on the muscles I'm working and the pace. Dialed into controlling the weight and not just moving it.

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@katiivey This is a consistent conversation I have with my clients - the toughest battle is walking through the door. After that, it's just listening, learning, and working.

Also, I walk right in when I arrive, so don't trust me. 😅

[Joe Grabowski @jeebsy3]

@Hervbird21 The more time I spend on LinkedIn for recruiting, the more I appreciate being a gym owner and having to deal with it less and less. 🤣