Posts Tagged ‘ career ’

This is worth taking 15 minutes out of your day and watching:
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I already re-tweeted … but I have to post this. In a great Open Forum post on How to Escape Mundanity (which is actually about how to start your own business), there’s this great quote from Pamela Slim: If you are in the very early stages of thinking about a business, spend your time...
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I’ve just started following Chris Guillebeau’s Art of Noncomfority blog, about his non-traditional work/jobs/career, and his travel around the world. One thing that stuck out for me in today’s post is this quote on The Heart of the Matter: The way you stand out in a non-profit organization isn’t that different from what you...
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This is a shout-out to announce that fact that 3 amazing web/software developers/technology managers that I know really, really well are looking for work. If you’re looking for developers these guys are great: Mike Skovgard: LinkedIn, blog Mike is a commando. Give him a tough development job and he’ll attack it like it’s a...
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Week two of my brand-new job is coming up tomorrow. Here’s what I need: Office space in Richmond, BC, for 10-20 people Accounting, Bookkeeping, and Payroll services, ideally all from one provider Developers, developers, developers, developers (Just channeling Steve Ballmer in text here … what I need are Delphi developers, including at least one...
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Today is the day. While I’m on-call for another week, and will return to the office next Friday for a cake&coffee with the team, I’m leaving the company that I’ve been with for 15 years (give or take a month). That’s 15 years through 7 different jobs: Research Assistant Staff Writer Marketing Project Manager...
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I feel good. Really good. Reason? I worked out last night … even though it was a crazy, crazy day with a full 9 or so hours at work, an hour coaching baseball for my son’s team, and a coffee with friends. I think it was Penelope Trunk who said it a few months...
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As someone who’s recently been promoted, I need to be extremely self-aware about what I’m doing, what I’m saying, why, how, and how others are perceiving it. As Bob Sutton quotes Dacher Keltner’s The Power Paradox, positional power is a very dangerous thing: He argues that — contrary to the claims of many experts,...
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I had lunch with a colleague today. He’s young, smart, and creative … and in a job where he cannot possibly exercise all his talents. (Kind of the way I like to think of myself!) But he has a good-paying job. And a mortgage. And 3 kids. And a wife. So it’s hard. Hard...
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