I dragged my husband out to see Penelope tonight. It was playing at the theater in the mall, so we went a little earlier to have dinner in the Food Court and do some shopping. As we were walking around, several people with clipboards approached us and asked if we would like to participate in [...]
I have so many different email accounts that it’s not even funny. I don’t like getting all my mail in a single account because I find that it’s simply too much to go through in a single day, so I try to separate things as much as possible.
For example, my main email account (which [...]
I was talking to a friend of mine earlier today, and he passed along an interesting job-hunting tip that I’ve never heard before. He told me that whenever he goes in for an interview, he’ll scan the company’s parking lot to see what other employees are driving. If he sees a lot of nice cars, [...]
When I was in high school and college, I was extremely interested in politics. I read several newspapers each day, and subscribed to a magazine called National Review. Yes, I was a conservative back then, though things have changed a bit now.
One of my favorite thinkers of the time was the editor-in-chief of National [...]
When I was in school studying for my business degree, I had a particularly progressive professor who stressed the importance of networking, mentoring, and coaching. She believed that career advancement and success is a lot easier to come by when a person has a solid support system to rely on.
Though I didn’t stick around the [...]
I’ve totally been slacking as far as these weekly projects go, so I have to give myself an easy one today to get back on track.
Remember how I have that out-of-home consulting job that I go to a couple days per week? Well, I have two requests for recommendation letters from former employees sitting on [...]
I see evidence of the sluggish housing market every single day around here. In my neighborhood alone, there are at least 12 “For Sale” signs scattered across lawns up and down the street, which is the definitely the most there has ever been.
I noticed that one real estate agent is handling three of the [...]
I came across this blog called Five Things while I was surfing this morning, and thought it might be fun to try out a few of these lists on my own. I won’t do a list every day; maybe just once a week or so (or whenever I get stuck for other post ideas!).
Anyway, [...]