Do You 6IOL?
This summer, fashionistas and reccesionistas alike heard about Six Items or Less, a wardrobe challenge designed for trendy nine-to-fivers with a little too much closet and a twinge of self awareness. 6IOL is just what it sounds like – participants select six items (or less) to wear for one month, excluding workout clothes, pajamas and [...]
Letting the Grass Grow
About a year ago I left my fast-paced, career-tracked, ladder-climbing job at a global PR firm to work as a communications director at an elite university in Chicago. It wasn’t an easy decision – I loved my job and my co-workers – but after eight years of non-stop travel, late-night new business cram sessions, early [...]
New Chapter, New Job!
Blank pages. I often associate them with the negative (as in writers’ block). But I recently made a decision to leave my agency job, where I had worked for eight years, in favor of a new position with a new company. I put in my notice, worked my last two weeks, took a two-week vacation [...]
Cool Career Blog
Boys and girls, add this to your list of cool things to read this weekend targeting the young and smart: The New York Times Shifting Careers Blog Marci’s written some good posts as of late.
Long Live the Internship?
While I’ve written a bit about the downside of student loans, there’s another questionable practice eating away at the pocketbooks of my fellow “Student Loan Generation” compadres.: the unpaid (or barely paid) internship that’s become standard for college students and now for graduates, too. In order to get a foot in the door of the [...]
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