The Anthony Reeves Experience

  1993, Fla. State Employee Making the transition to a new job is a life altering situation on its own.   It can even be more life altering if you are responsible for relocating to a job in a different city on your own.  While you are going through the hiring process, make sure you take it upon yourself to ask as many questions as possible of your employer so you can ensure that your transition is as seamless as possible.    When I got my first job working for the State of Florida, I had to relocate four hours away to a new city.  Unfortunately, I was responsible for all of my relocation costs. Fortunately, I didn’t have any furniture at the time because I was just out of college so all I had was my car and clothes.  However, when I got there, I still had to focus on finding a place to live and getting my phone, cable and electricity turned on even though I was in an unfamiliar city.    A year (and a few pieces of fur...

 If you are one of those people with a big heart or someone who believes in the power of giving back, you may find yourself feeling that you need to slow down the pace of your progression.   I know that sounds odd but think about it.  How many of us have felt guilty because so many doors opened for us that our peers did not have open for them?   You feel bad.  You feel selfish.  You feel ungrateful.   You have all of these feelings because, in your mind, you do not feel that you should be the ‘lucky’ ones. STOP THAT!   You aren’t LUCKY!  You are DESTINED!  Those opportunities that come before you are just that, OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU!   You can choose to share.  You can choose to enlighten.   You can choose to be humble.   But do NOT for a second believe you are not worth receiving those opportunities just because someone did not.  Those opportunities for you are meant for you to benefit and you do yourself greate...

R.P.O.V. Counter point to “Talking to your parents about assets, part 2:  Talking about assets”   One of the hard parts about talking to your parents about assets is the finality of the discussion.   The realization that you are talking about leaving things behind when they are gone.   We all know that we will eventually leave this world.   However, when having the conversation about leaving this world can make a lot of people feel very uncomfortable.     Which brings me to the uncomfortable conversation about what your parents have.    If your parents have accumulated a lot of things over their lifetime, taking the time to figure out what they have can be overwhelming to your parents.    It is not that they do not want to itemize everything.  It is just that it forces them to have to stop, take a moment, and truly think about everything they own or are in possession. ...

  The Debate over who can tell who what to do R.P.O.V. Counter point to “Telling your parents what to do”   Two problems tend to present themselves when you find yourself in the position of having to tell your parents what to do: 1)       They may only do the portions THEY want to do 2)       They don’t think YOU should be telling them anything   Therein lies the debate.   The first part lies in the difficulty in telling anyone what to do who have historically told you what to do.  If you grew up in a household where you were raised to respect your parents, having tell your parents to do anything can be a nightmare.    You are already conditioned to respect them so you may feel like telling them to do something is disrespectful.  In addition, they also feel that you are not in the position to tell them what to do since you are their child.  So, when faced with this rea...

  Finding yourself in the position of having to take care of your parents can be very challenging.   In the month of October 2022, I am going to post a series of blogs, videos and podcasts focusing on taking care of your parents. Tune in For everything about Anthony Reeves, visit Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/mynameisreeves   Subscribe to Anthony Reeves on YouTube:   https://youtube.com/c/IntheKNOWwithTonyReeves   Follow Anthony Reeves on twitter:   https://twitter.com/mynameisreeves Like Anthony Reeves on FaceBook:   https://facebook.com/mynameisreeves Listen to Anthony Reeves on SoundCloud:  https://SoundCloud.com/mynameisreeves Listen to Anthony Reeves on BlogTalkRadio:   https://blogtalkradio.com/mynameisreeves   To my read my book, visit Amazon:   https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B079VRY2GR   For even more news, stay tuned to: Blogger:   https://theanthonyreevesexperience.blogspot.com/ Tumb...

I often have to remind myself that my mom’s generation was the generation that came in after World War Two. My mother is a baby boomer and for her, her generation had very specific lanes for success. I often joke with some of my friends that when I was coming up, the lanes of success were fairly limited to three things: Community College or technical school, college, or the military.   My mom’s generation probably could not wrap their brain around someone making a living playing video games, or riding a skateboard, or riding a snowboard. Those career paths for pathways to earn revenue just were not present during their generation. Which is why talking to future generations is tough if you’re a member of generation X because our parents came from that generation and they had a different pathway to success than the millennials have today.   Which is why focusing on giving guidance to the next generation has to be a serious endeavour when children today are faced with so many mor...

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/mynameisreeves/2022/07/18/understanding-the-grind-my-first-telemarketing-job My first job out of college was telemarketing   I often wonder if there a segment of the population who do not appreciate the grind of jobs we take for granted.  That is why I can fully understand people reevaluating their working situation after going through the Pandemic of 2020 to 2022.     One such job that is often unappreciated was a job I had immediately after I graduated from college.   A job as a telemarketer.   I can tell you that shortly after I graduated from college I was really excited about getting off into the world and starting my own thing and the first job that I applied for as an adult straight out of college with a job as a telemarketer.   No w , this was a whole new adventure for me because I didn’t have a clue what it meant to be a telemarketer. And I learned very quickly that this was not the job I thought it was ...

We see a lot of talk on the news about student loans which made me wonder.    How many people truly have conversations with young people about what it means when you have to start paying back your student loans?  No one had that conversation with me and let me tell you why it’s important to have that conversation if you have not had it with a young person or anyone who is just starting to pay back their student loans. When I started my first job out of college, I had one student loan that was currently outstanding from my first year and a half of going to a private school. Getting the student loan wasn’t that hard because it was cosigned with my grandmother. I was 17 years old at the time and all I knew was that this loan was necessary in order for me to be able to pay for my college. What I didn’t realize was what impact it would have on me when it came time for me to repay the loan.  When I started my first job back in 1992, I was working for the state of Florida a...

 How many of us have heard the old phrase, this is what I would tell my younger self? Whenever I hear people say “If I could tell my younger self what I know now”, my thought is that there are so many versions of my younger self I couldn’t just focus on one message that would cover the entire Period.  So in keeping with the spirit of these recent graduations, I’m gonna take the opportunity to share with you the life advice I would give to the four different younger graduate versions of myself:  My 18 year old High School Grad self, my 21 year old undergrad self, my 25 year old graduate school self, and my 31 year old law school grad self. To my 18 year old high school graduate self, I will tell you to take a look to your left and right and all around you because there’s a very good chance that you will never see these people again. And that’s OK. You’ve just spent the last 12 years in a very controlled environment with affectively the same group of people. And although yo...

If you have ever lived in a city or an urban area, you will find very often that you will have access to pretty much anything you need.  Not only will you have access to the things you need, you will probably have multiple options to choose.  But what does it mean when you live in a rural area and your options are fairly limited? When I used to practice law, I practiced in a rural area. Not only was it rural but the nearest major city was about 35 miles away.  One of the things that I did when I was practicing law was that I wanted to go to the places where my clients received their treatment.   At the time I was practicing, most of the people that I represented relied heavily on Community Health services or various State or County health departments.  These Community Health provides for Physical and Mental Health care are the life blood of many communities.   However, these resources can be limited. Access to Community Healthcare can be challenging.  ...

Letters from Baby Boomers about Jim Crow 05/15 by The Honorable Anthony Reeves | Legal : This video is the first of a series of ?Q&A? provided by loved ones who share their experiences AFTER Jim Crow. These experiences are conveyed through a series of questions answered via letters. The following questions asked were: 1) What happened around you when you found out MLK had been assassinated? 2) How did you find out Segregation was outlawed? 3) What was the first place you visited after integration? 4) Was there any place you visited who still refused to serve you even though the Civil Rights Act had been passed? 5) Name a place you refused to go to even though you were allowed to go. Why would you not go there? 6) Do you know of people who were still afraid to vote even though the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had passed? Why were they afraid to vote?

 Let me be blunt.  I did NOT think I was going to graduate from law school.   It had nothing to do with bad grades.  It had nothing to do with difficult classes.  It had nothing to do with tough teachers. I had made this determination the moment I sat in my classes at Florida State University College of Law. I had convinced myself that I did not deserve to be there.  It did not matter that I had a Bachelors degree and Masters Degree.  It did not matter that I had served in the military.  NONE of those things mattered.   What mattered was that I was attending one of the top law schools in the State of Florida and I had already decided that I would be lucky if I made it through the first semester. Despite my paranoia, I had the one thing that would ensure my success. I had a Personal Circle. Jerome (R.I.P.) and I during our 2nd year of law school. Stacey, Cherie and I studying during our 1st year of law school Sitting in the break area of the T...

 When I first open my own law firm, I tried to do it all. And when I mean I tried to do it all, I meant that I try to do every role in my company on my own. In the first year, it was easier to rationalize. It was just me so I felt like it was just a necessary part of doing what I needed to do. But the longer I was in practice and the more clients I obtain, I started realizing that I was spending more of my energy doing everything else but the practice of law. And regardless of how many cases I have or how efficient I thought I was, I learned a valuable lesson.  Every moment I spent working on something other than my money making ability, was taking time away from my ability to make money. In this video I talk about the importance of recognizing that if you spend all of your time doing other things, you are hurting your business in the long run because you’re not focusing on the one thing that’s important when it comes to running your own business.

Sometimes, your loved ones are there to remind you that THEY and the WORLD SEE YOU and that your representation truly matters. To understand this point, you have to understand who I am and why that matters.  On April 15, 2022, I will officially have served as an Administrative Law Judge within a United States Government agency for 5 years.   It is hard to truly appreciate that milestone but whether I believe it or not, I have had the chance to serve. For those of you who don’t know me, you have to understand that I have been and continue to be a very humble person.  I am thankful and very grateful for the opportunities I have received and the accomplishments I have attained.  However, there are times when I don’t appreciate the significance of my accomplishments. Which brings me to an interesting story. A couple of years ago, a dear friend, Veronica, invited my wife and I to her retirement ceremony after almost 40 years in the United States Navy.  As part of her...