Navigating the COVID-19 Detour on Your Career Path
Over the past couple of weeks months, I’ve seen many of my colleagues and friends impacted by job loss and layoffs. Finding a job is hard enough, so I wanted to offer some suggestions on how to navigate this ‘new normal’. Below, are some of my favorite job seeker resources and some tips I’ve picked up along the way. Indeed.com Indeed offers more than just a place to find your next job. As a job seeker, you can post your resume. If you already have your resume on Indeed, it’s a good idea to update it, making sure your roles and skills are current. If you need inspiration for your…
Facebook Groups: Crowdsourced Unemployment Help
A friend of mine asked me about some unemployment questions, I tried to help out with no luck, then I thought, ‘There has to be a Facebook Group for unemployment help in CT,” and there was a Facebook Group. I sent her the link, and she said it was exactly what she needed. That got me thinking, I’m sure there are other states who have groups as well, and there are. Job loss in normal circumstances is hard enough. Unemployment offices are flooded with claims at an unprecedented rate. There are countless news stories of people calling unemployment offices hundreds of times with no luck. I compiled a list of…
How I Tackled the Chaos in My Closet
A few years ago, I learned about minimalism, I read blogs about ‘capsule wardrobes’ and learned about people who only owned dishes. The concept was uncomfortable, yet I was intrigued because minimalism is so unlike me. I had to ask myself if I was missing something. Is Less More? I concluded minimalism wasn’t for me, but neither was maximalism – I was somewhere in between. I read Marie Kondo‘s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing a few years ago. I re-learned how to fold my t-shirts and cleaned out my closet. Everything looked great, and then life happened. Years later, the dust settled, and grad school…
fitting into my jeans: part 3
In the last installment of the fitting into my jeans series, I talked about how I needed to evaluate my career success from a more quantitative perspective. I decided the best way to do this was to start with something simple: create the recipe for an irresistible resume. A resume is a good way to evaluate career success because good resumes tell your story. Sometimes it’s easy to get lost in the details and forget what your story is. Your career isn’t a bulleted list of mundane tasks, it’s a story about who you are, and what you do. Your career isn’t a bulleted list of mundane tasks, it’s a story…
fitting into my jeans: part 2
In my previous fitting into my jeans article, I outlined how I wanted to go down the path of being true to myself. I gave a (purposely) vague outline of what fitting into my jeans meant and that I was taking the first step towards being true to myself. In this post, I’m offering context on why I want to focus on integrity and why I’m on this journey. If not now, when?Being true to myself is something I’ve struggled with for a while. I’ve always struggled with integrity when it comes to my career. I consider myself a lifelong learner, and I know this has to be the next…
The World As I See It: What I Learned About My Consumption Habits
The world as I see it is different from the way Albert Einstein and Jason Mraz see the world. You may find it strange that I bring up these two seemingly unassociated people, a virtue, a mindset if you will, is what connects them. Einstein published memoirs under the title “The World As I See It” and Mraz wrote a song by the same name inspired by those memoirs. I learned about Mraz’s inspiration and decided to read Einstein’s memoirs myself. Around this time in my life, the world as I saw it was not the world I thought I was living in. This revelation came from an unlikely place:…
fitting into my jeans
Fitting into my jeans is about a different kind of fit. Fitting into my jeans is a lesson in how I'm training myself to "fit" the concept of living my truth and being my authentic self into all aspects of my life.
