Transitions are a crucial time in any career and, if Generation Y continues it’s frequent job changes, it will be more important to our generation than any other. The process of ending one job and moving to the next determines how the people in your old role will view you after you have left, […]
A long time ago, there was a movie called “The Cell“. It had Jennifer Lopez before she had kids, Vince Vaughn before he started doing dick-joke comedies, and Vincent D’Onofrio before he was on Law & Order and was only known for Full Metal Jacket. It was visually very strange, even beautiful. It was directed […]
In the U.S. we work too much and take too little vacation. In an attempt to correct this in my young professional life, I’ve taken off a week in between projects to visit a friend in Brussels. Nothing clears the mind and replenishes one’s internal motivation engine like a week free of work and daily […]
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I know a lot of folks that are in a nonprofit job right now that they dread going to every morning for one reason or another. That’s not how it should be! Everyone has the opportunity to find work in the nonprofit sector that they love. But it’s difficult […]
Things are starting to get interesting here at the Brazen Careerist office (my living room). We’re pitching the company to investors nearly every other day; we’re days away from launching the site, and we’re doing consulting to help with cash flow.
I’ve never been this busy in my life, and I’m having a blast. The […]
The Little Engine That Could taught us that all it takes to accomplish something is to say “I think I can, I think I can”. Are you still living your life off the lessons you learned in nursery rhymes? You should be!
The truth of the matter is, you are what you think you are, you […]
Sitting in traffic in my air-conditioned, single-occupancy vehicle, I often lament the fact that Seattle doesn’t have a rapid mass-transit system. However, an article in The Seattle Times about commuters in Mexico City has made me reconsider.
“Groping and verbal harassment are an exasperating reality for women using public transportation in this sprawling capital [Mexico City], […]
A reader pointed me to creativity expert Michael Michalko’s blog, and it’s terrific. One of his recent posts speaks to something I have thought and written about:
Whenever
we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else. As
simplistic as this statement may seem, it is the first principle of
creative accident. We may ask […]
While I’m mostly enjoying the switch from being an into-English translator to being an active language learner, I’d forgotten just how exhausting it can be 
And how slow and steady a process it is to move knowledge from the passive to the active par…
I found this post over at Bob Bly’s blog about what to do when you don’t think the product you’re writing copy for will sell. A lot of writers simply said they’d let the client know about their reservations but give it a try anyway. I have two things to say about this: […]
