Rich Tatum's profile answers

Promote Cornerstone Church, its services, events, and outreach to the Nashville community. Direct media production, media relations, and public relations. Oversee Web content and marketing strategies. Produce all in-house marketing materials. Brand management.

To be creative with my skills and gifts in communication, visioneering, and strategy. More importantly: to work for a company that believes in its employees, promotes excellence, and has a great vision and purpose I could get behind.

My dream job would be one where I have the freedom to be creative with my skills and gifts in communication, visioneering, and strategy. More important than the particular position is to work for a company that believes in its employees, provides an environment for excellence, and has a great vision and purpose that I could get behind....

Your best tool in getting a job interview somewhere -- anywhere -- is to rely on your friends to help out. Every single interview I've had in the last six months since getting laid off has been because I knew somebody who knew the right person to get me an "in." Ultimate lesson: Build your network!

My very first paid job was at a vegetable/produce market. I swept, mopped, and kept the veggies looking good. They paid cash. I loved it.

I'm looking for something that satisfies my need for creativity, big-picture thinking, my gift for communication and training, and strategic thinking.

The first thing I'd do is pay off my mortgage, then pay off all my other debts, then hire the best financial advisor I could find to help me invest my money so I could live off the interest only.

Cleaning out the manure from a barn. Who knew that crap could be three feet deep and solid as dried mud?

Being a paid blogger to only write what interests me, earning $50,000 a year. With an expense account.

Be persistent, but be flexible. Your first few jobs after college may or may not have any bearing on the rest of your career. Don't get hung up on salaries or annual income: even though you're a graduate, you still have a lot to learn. Use your jobs like they were an extended college classroom and suck all the wisdom you can from them....