Week 7: Back at It, Custom GPTs, and Manifesting Dreams

This was my first week back after vacation, and I've shifted gears to focus on landing my next job. Don't worry—my Summer of Service is still in full swing, but I'll spare you the thrilling details of event planning, drafting SOPs, website updates, managing Google Forms, and wrestling inboxes. Unless, of course, that's your jam—then please message me, and we'll geek out together.

Family was also on the agenda this week. My brother was in town to help set up systems for managing our mom’s affairs. It feels good knowing we’re ready to step in whenever needed.

But enough admin—let’s talk Custom GPTs. I'm officially in love. Imagine having your own personalized agent, preconfigured with your instructions, and loaded with a custom knowledge base that it can reference on-demand. I've already built several: one for foster parenting, a blog assistant, a civic association helper, and even "My Future Ready Resume" assistant.

Sure, there are already quite a few GPTs out there you can use as a starting point, but the ease of customization blew me away. I'm a natural problem solver—and while there’s plenty of beauty in the world, let’s be real, there's no shortage of problems either. My method? I learn, experiment, iterate, and when I encounter challenges in real life, I apply what I've discovered.

Take foster parenting, for example: when a child is placed in your home, you might have just a few hours to get up to speed on parenting strategies, age-appropriate safety, and practical necessities. Enter my GPT foster parenting assistant—complete with conversation starters and built-in references that are important to you, I use the Virtues Project and Ruhi Institute books on raising children and junior youth for spiritual empowerment and character building (still working on it but [here] it is if you are interested).

That brings me back to my job search. With thousands of resumes flooding every job posting, standing out is tough. More importantly, my goal is to work in ethical AI to improve humanity—can a standard resume even reflect that? Plus, resumes are notoriously boring. So, naturally, I've built a custom GPT resume. For my loyal three or four followers (you know who you are), feel free to check it out [here]—ask it anything! (And definitely notify me if it starts hallucinating.)

Sharing my vision board publicly with this post is totally out of character for me—normally, I keep my dreams close to the chest—but I'm trying this new thing called manifesting openly. Because, really, what have I got to lose?

I'm already excited for next week. Recently, I met up with friends from vastly different backgrounds, and I'm inspired to involve them in training AI models so their diverse experiences can help make these systems smarter and more inclusive. If I end up in a position where I can help them find meaningful roles, I absolutely will. After all, when one succeeds, we all succeed—and when one suffers, we all suffer.