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,...
While I was considering leaving the practice of law, I sat down and made a list of what I wanted out of my next job. My list consisted of things like flexibility, autonomy, creativity, the ability to...
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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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...
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...
By my own definition, I am a damsel in success. For years, I've held off pursuing my dreams in order to become a mother of 2 and an Army wife of one. There's not a moment that passes where I look...
This morning, my husband was talking about how much he has enjoyed the fact that I have such a flexible schedule now. Since I left my "Big Law" job a year ago - and even though I
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...
Let’s say you’ve been in a successful business partnership for 5 years with someone who’s been a close friend for 25. You both enjoy this partnership so much that you decide to...
For four years, I worked for a mid-sized law firm with approximately 45 attorneys in the local office. My first few years there were fantastic. I was on top of my game and headed in all the right...
After spending a few months as a life and career coach, I am becoming a lawyer again. But I’m doing it differently this time, joining the ranks of young lawyers in Orlando
“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...
I started a new job on Wednesday. At 23 years old, I am now the Executive Director of a young professional organization whose mission is to attract and retain young talent and leadership
During my six years of law practice, I faced unrelenting pressure to please every partner, every client, every moment of every day, regardless of the personal toll, and not look like an out of...
As a part-time writing instructor, teaching in Boston, you tend to go on a lot of job interviews. This also means you usually have more than one job at a time. Classes open up, someone...
There are so many challenges in starting a business (in my case, a solo shop) such as wearing ALL the hats, dealing with the finances, giving up your reliable income source to take a risk, etc. ...
I love, live and breathe fashion. I pick season’s colors, watch fashion trends, travel to Paris to source fabrics, and I sketch constantly. Ah yes, and read fashion magazines and shop whenever...
To Do in the Next Six Weeks: 1. Finish the most challenging women’s health book I’ve written to date. Two weeks. 2. Prepare to market the 10 amazing authors whose books...
I don't want to tell you this, but I have to: I got fired from my very first job out of college. I still feel the twinges of shame and inadequacy, the fear that at the ripe old age of twenty-two my...
My name is Monica Favela George and I have a problem. I LOVE shoes. So much that I have risked my entire financial well being on launching my own shoe line. I did not work for anyone else in...
Generally, I’m a free spirit when it comes to how I approach life but when it comes to work, I’ve always done what I should do opposed to what I want to do…until now. The path has been a bit...
My life as a retail entrepreneur plays out like a twisted Mastercard commercial. I have paid a price for my vision and the many costs involved include forfeiting a six-figure salary; no...
“Do you think you could try looking a little older?” was the constructive criticism I received during my first professional review following college graduation. I was working as an...
I have been working in the art and legal fields in New York City for the past twelve years. Three years ago I culled my favorite parts of each of these fields and launched my fine art...