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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…