Career Life: Securing the battlements for a promotion
As you may know, I was promoted this year. It was a long road in getting there, and I thought I’d share some of the process. Even though I had the advantage of knowing the job description when it went...
View ArticleCareer Life: Links and Love
Paranoid Asteroid sat on the interviewing panel for her coworker’s replacement and noted some of the same things. One of her examples that I didn’t note: My “favorite” applicant so far has been the one...
View ArticleVacation policies: we’re doing it right
One of the few perks of my current job was one that sounds good, but that I was pretty skeptical about. Unlimited vacation! SURE… sounds great but I didn’t really like it because as a certified...
View ArticleDown with terrible cover letters!
After several years of hiring, patterns inevitably crop up with every round of applications. In the latest round of hirings: Awful cover letters. I’ve spent more time as an applicant than as a hiring...
View ArticleOn feedback: when bad management strikes
A. I don’t like giving feedback, it feels confrontational. B. I shouldn’t have to give you feedback or tell you what I’m thinking. You’re my right hand, you should already know. C. Why are you doing...
View ArticleToxic jobs, bad hiring, and freedom: A financial victory story
Most of us have had our share of bad or indifferent managers, some of us have had absolutely terrible managers, and sometimes those terrible, no-good, very bad managers were Toxic Waste Phenomena. For...
View ArticlePlanning for job evaporation and asking “What’s next?”
My jaw aches set in at dawn. When I close my eyes, my stomach’s flipping and turning like a bucking bronco. I think I know why. My body is signalling: PAY ATTENTION. By and large, I’ve been happy at my...
View ArticleUnlocking the mystery of my next job
I’ve hit a rut Our current work and life arrangements are pretty comfortable. The work is flexible and particularly good for me when I’m perpetually sick. I can get the work done as long as I have a...
View ArticleCareers, marriage, kid, life: how do you find parity?
I see some form of this question off and on in the various forums I haunt. We’re in an Extra Hustle chapter of our lives this year and are hanging on by the skin of our teeth: all our conversations...
View ArticleCareers, marriage, family, life: parity in 2018
Last summer, I talked about how we made it work around here and I think it’s worth revisiting a year, and a lot more stressors, later. We’ve been settled into the new home for a year now – thank...
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