Believe it or not, I actually really love what I do.  Teaching and empowering people to leverage better technology is a hard part of your brain to turn off.  Over the years I've helped friends, colleagues, and neighbors with any combination of the following (and more):

• Career Shifts into Power Platform

• Website and Portfolio Building

• Small business automation assistance

Conversations usually start with a "you know you could do that for free right?" and before I know it, I'm giving a lesson.  The light on someone's face when they figure out they really can do something that felt out of reach before is always worth it.

Pictured Below:

A website I empowered members of a local community to build, which continues to evolve and support those neighbors to this day!

Facing what borders on a financial literacy crisis, especially in the rural southern United States, I do what I can to spread financial literacy and good budgeting practices.  This is predominately done by leveraging tools I've built for myself, and making them free and accessible to others.  I'm frequently helping people seeking advice on better budgeting, and most notably have shared countless time an open source automation for tracking shared spending throughout the month, against a shared budget number.

Ornithology

As a proud member of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, I do own a birdfeeder.  Pictured below are some common birds in my area that I enjoy.  You may be thinking to yourself, "wow, these are incredible wildlife photos, Corey must be really talented".  I assure you, that would be an inaccurate assumption.  I did not take any of the pictures of these birds, because I am terrible at taking pictures of birds, but I do LOOK at them all the time and this is what they look like.

*Pictured from left to right: Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Carolina Wren, Tufted Titmouse, White-eyed Vireo

Sailing and Boating

I was on the sailing team in college, and have been in love with the sport ever since. I usually have at least some dinky sailboat at any given time.  I usually can't get enough of being on the water, so when I'm not able to sail, you can typically find me on a canoe somewhere paddling out in some back stream or river.  I am always down to talk about boats.

*If you sail too, I will crew your boat with you no questions asked, because it's likely much nicer than mine

DIY Projects

I build a lot of stuff!  I've stripped an apartment down to the studs before and rebuilt, I've built decks, outdoor stairways, coffee tables, benches, library shelves, you name it!  If you can pay somebody to build it, I probably spent twice as much to build it in 3 times as long, but I love it.  I'm pretty versed in 3D CAD and love sketching up ideas.