This is my horoscope for the month of February 2008 – the month that I resigned from my job as a national sales and marketing manager to write full-time – I thought it would be worth...
The pink slips have been handed out, the severance checks cashed, and the farewell drinks consumed. Everyone has offered their condolences to those who were let go, yet you’re still here,...
I realized this month, during a conversation with one of my closest friends, that I’ve unknowingly surrounded myself with people who compliment me. I’ve been lucky enough to meet these...
In an age where wunderkinds are making millions in back room internet start-ups and an entrepreneurial attitude is heralded as the “it” factor, many young professionals feel the pressure...
In an earlier post I talked about how my job doesn’t give me adequate opportunities to develop myself as a leader. My organization lacks structure and...
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Much to the field’s disadvantage, the image of nonprofit workers is as follows: people toiling away at soup kitchens or after school programs to eliminate a social problem that will never end...
I thought something would happen the last week of March, but what was supposed to happen didn’t. See, I was supposed to figure out who the man of my dreams was this past week. Stop laughing....
Even after I declared a major in college, from "Undecided" to journalism, I've still been pretty undecided about all my career-related choices. I'm having trouble making up my mind, and I...
I got fired from my first job after college. It’s now over ten years ago, so I don’t have to tell the story at job interviews any more, but I was well and truly fired from my first real...
WOW. That is all I can say. This job and career hunt is one exhausting and outrageously time-consuming venture, pretty much eating up all my creative energy, all my writing energy for anything other...
When I first applied to college four years ago, I listed my choice of major as English, but that quickly changed to kinesiology after enrolling freshmen year. The following summer my new field of...
I recently ran into a blog written by a young person (I will assume a woman, but I am not sure) who was frustrated with her attempts to volunteer abroad. She wanted some kind of international...
A few months ago I was contacted by an old friend. We hadn’t been extremely close, but she was someone I spent a lot of time with in the mid-nineties. It had been five years since we lost...
“I don’t know why you take so much pride in failing,” an American ex-boyfriend and fellow Rhodes Scholar once said to me while we were dating. He made that remark in...