Are you aching to strike out on your own? Try a new career path? Or are searching for purpose, passion, and a final career destination? A once unhappy and burnt-out journalist delivers savvy insight, genuine inspiration, and practical guidance on discovering work you love. More →
In the Northeast corridor of the U.S., we’ve been battling major weather conditions. In the Washington, DC metro area alone, we’ve seen as much as four feet of snow and thousands of people are currently without power.
Meanwhile, wind gusts are reaching speeds of up to 50 miles per hour, sweeping blankets of snow everywhere.
As I [...]
A lot of people wonder why opportunities don’t come knocking at their door. They feel as if they’ve been dealt an unlucky set of cards or that life’s just unfair.
Some believe that outsiders simply fail to see their worth or talent, and therefore are bypassed opportunities.
While those scenarios could certainly be the case. More [...]
About five years ago, I moved from my small hometown in Georgia to Los Angeles about a year after high school graduation with the hopes of pursuing an acting career. It was short-lived.
After attending acting classes for one academic year, I decided to try college once again and then enrolled into a two-year institution in [...]
When Carrie said, “I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love,” on Sex and the City, she could have been talking about her career. Frankly, I already have career-love. I’m a consumer affairs mediator. My job combines shopping, helping people and the occasional entertaining crazy. Bliss.
And yet.
It’s not my dream. Or it’s only [...]
Over the holidays, I had a chance to read the book The Noticer, by New York Times Bestselling Author Andy Andrews. It truly is a moving story.
The book is centered on the life of an old drifter named Jones, along with his mysterious encounters and impromptu counseling sessions with a number of residents living in [...]
New Year’s Resolutions For Job Seekers
I’m not generally someone who believes strongly in creating New Year’s Resolutions. They’re mostly rooted in lofty thinking and, for much of the population, are very rarely based on definitive plans. I do recommend, however, using the start of a new year as an opportunity to explore your accomplishments from [...]
If you’ve ever heard of the expression “Keeping up the Joneses” then more than likely you’ve associated the phrase with someone attempting to emulate another individual’s standard of living through the purchase of material things, such as designer wear, a bigger house, or foreign car.
Buying such things aren’t inherently bad. It becomes detrimental and unhealthy [...]
