La Vida Idealist

I joined the ranks of La Vida because I am an idealist. I believe that, in one way or another, it is our duty to give back what we can. I believe in the right to energy, clean drinking water and education. I believe that idealists who volunteer can make a direct impact and pay it forward. I believe in dreaming aggressively.

This is a very unique group of people and forum to put our ideas out for everyone to read. I know that I truly enjoyed putting my thoughts down and it helped me reflect and better understand my work with blueEnergy Group. While in the field, writing is the best way to search and find meaning within our work. We all know that the idealistic volunteer experience of a culture welcoming newcomers with open arms, ready at any cost to embrace change, is completely naïve.

However, as an idealist, I demand better opportunities for every human on this planet, and many routes of La Vida contributors embrace the realistic circumstances.

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La Vida is the perfect avenue to express ourselves and hopefully motivate others to volunteer. It is my hope that we inspire each other and more like-minded people to get out, give back and go volunteer!

As to what I’ve been up to since leaving Nicaragua, well, that is where Alaska enters. After voluntarily leaving my finance job for a well-respected Fortune 500 company last year, I went back to my roots and helped captain a fishing boat in Alaska. I was born in this magnificent state, and spent many summers fishing along the Alaskan Peninsula with my father.

Once the summer season was complete in 2009, I joined the blueEnergy team. I’m back in Alaska again this summer but I took a little La Vida inspiration with me. La Vida is such a fantastic website to showcase what we love to do and I’ve applied that concept back in the United States. I created my own website with a friend called The Real Alaska and we are geared to provide a forum to entertain and educate viewers about Alaska. Right now we are focused on showing the gritty, unedited side of commercial fishing and adventure tourism events. I would love it if you would browse the site and help spread the word.

The beauty of the Internet is that there are no goodbyes. Despite poor Internet coverage on the Bering Sea, I will return to America… errr… I mean civilization. I encourage you to reach out, ask any questions, or just make a connection.

Thank you very much to the fantastic leadership, contributors and readers who make La Vida Idealist possible.

Over and out.

Brett Veerhusen was most recently a Controller for the blueEnergy Group in Bluefields, Nicaragua.

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