From the category archives:

career development

why i followed my passion and why you should, too

April 5, 2009

I’ve squeezed a lifetime into the past two months, full of ups and downs and lefts and rights and tears of both sadness and joy. On January 26th, I started a new job in San Francisco. After two weeks, I quit, upon realizing it wasn’t anything the interview implied and everything I didn’t want to be doing. So, even in this economy, I decided there was always going to be a reason to settle, so I didn’t.

I blazed through job ...

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stop using social media because everyone tells you to

March 31, 2009

I’m a big Twitter advocate, as you should assume. When I first started Twitter, back in, oh, mid 2007 (yes, I’ve been on the service since then!), I was not even a big fan at all. People told me I had to be on it, that I could do all these different things with it, but I kept forgetting I even had Twitter. I was getting “nudged” by the Twitter bot every other day, because I wasn’t updating. So, I ...

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stop reading 99% of career advice out there

March 30, 2009

Let me share a story with you: A month or so before I graduated from college, I snagged an interview with an award-winning ad agency called Goodby Silverstein. They are the masterminds behind “Got Milk?” and have been named Ad Agency of the Year by Advertising Age numerous times. Needless to say, I was nervous. The entire week before my interview, I pored over countless career advice articles online. I answered the 100 most common interview questions out loud two ...

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