The other week I had a phone interview for what I thought was my dream job. In the days before, I realized that was the kind of thing I'd been doing. And then, I waited. Meanwhile, work was going so-so. My computer broke - again - so I lost a day and a half on my ...
The other day, I had a phone interview for quite possibly my dream job. With the encouragement of my mentors and friends I was feeling good about it, and going for it, until a few hours before when I was practically vibrating with fear. I don't know how it went. I definitely didn't connect with the ...
Back in January, I hired someone to write my resume. It took a little longer than I thought - mostly because I took my time to make sure I was giving the responses considerable thought, and because part way though I had a bit of a crisis about accidentally mis-branding myself as an educator. However, I ...
I checked off everything on the list last week. It wasn't even down to the line - at 1400h on Friday all that was left was one kickboxing class. I hung out, caught up on some reading, watched an episode of Scrubs and then went out for dinner. And I thought about how it was that ...
I recently finished reading What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (Amazon) by Tina Seelig. It's a wonderful and inspiring book, and I'm going to write a little about how it inspired me, but I also want to touch on two other books that changed the way I look at things. The God Delusion ...
I've had a rough couple of weeks. I was told my work didn't make a contribution, went through a rocky patch with my boyfriend, had loads of events for WISE, including one huge, never been done before one, had the whole job search and resume writing process, wrote a paper in just over a week, ...
I've been thinking a lot lately about having dreams, in the context of graduating and finding a job. What is my dream job? What is the difference between a good job and a great job? What's the chance that I'll fail? Is that saying true, you know, the one that says "aim for the moon, even if ...
From "A Rant About Women" by the awesome Clay Shirky (emphasis mine). And it looks to me like women in general, and the women whose educations I am responsible for in particular, are often lousy at those kinds of behaviors, even when the situation calls for it. They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing ...
Sacha wrote a lovely post recently about delegating. It's been sitting open on my computer since, because I need to delegate more if I want to do more - because I'm hitting capacity. I do want to do more, so I've been spending a lot of time thinking about what I can delegate and even ...
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