Not dead, just on break
No, I’m not dead. The cause of my absence from this blog is that I’ve been busy – or lazy – these past few weeks. A lot of home, office,…
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For best results, eat the frog
I spontaneously took half a vacation day a few weeks ago because my supervisor and I were up-to-date on our projects and because she was going to be out of…
What I learn from my (by far) more social colleagues
A few weeks ago, I caught up with some former colleagues for dinner, drinks, and camaraderie. One of them left a steady paycheck to pursue a startup idea that had…
Home Front: Dare to be inspired
Ever start nesting out of the blue? You know what I’m talking about. There’s nothing actually wrong with your surroundings, and you feel a compulsion to change it anyway? I’ve…
Stop planning: unorthodox advice, practical results
There’s a scene in Shelly Duvall’s Fairie Tale Theatre take on the classic “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” story in which Goldilocks’s father chastises his lazy daughter as she makes…
Résumé writing from a performance evaluation POV
I wrote a few weeks ago about my supervisor’s response to my request for a 90-day review. She granted me the review, during which we looked over my first 90…
Do the work: make your résumé a living document
Breathing new life into your career – something we all seem to want to do all the time – starts with giving new life to your résumé today. Crafted properly,…
The Twenty-Seven Year Itch
It was about 27 years ago that I used to burn through a few rolls of film on my Kodak Brownie camera (until its untimely demise down a flight of…
My First 90 Days: Introspection meets employee review
It’s that exciting milestone in any new job, at which you and your supervisor get to swap stories about how well – or poorly – you’re doing. And for me,…
I Resume Sugar… at half speed
Sugar is back in my diet. Not like before, though. Eight weeks ago (well, nine for me, as I started a week before my comrades), I joined a small crew…