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Career Advancement

Mass career customization makes sense

October 11, 2007

Take one part an ever-demanding workforce and two parts smart women and you get the next book I’ll be reading after I finish this one: Mass Career Customization – Aligning the Workplace with Today’s Nontraditional Workforce.  I actually learned about this book a couple of days ago from a colleague of mine, but a post [...]

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What I’d really like to see on the Working Mother 100 Best Companies List

September 26, 2007

I can’t stay away from the blog for long. Not when Working Mother magazine comes out with their 100 Best Companies List and I miss posting about it by one day.  I HAVE to make my second (or is it third?) re-entry during a week when something actually newsworthy comes out about us working moms. (Isn’t [...]

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Hold the bread, please

September 9, 2007

I’ve always known it, but this article solidified it.  I’m not cut out to be the breadwinner of our family.  It’s not that I don’t have the ambition or the drive to be good at my job.  I do.  It’s not that I want to opt-out or off-ramp or whatever silly buzzwords exist to define working [...]

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More reasons I can’t quit my job…

August 27, 2007

I’m full of empty threats about quitting my job because I can’t find a decent nanny.  But sometimes things happen that bring me back to earth about why I need to work.  For one, if I stayed home, I’d be forced to learn how to wrap birthday presents, as I wouldn’t be able to play [...]

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Back to work

July 24, 2007

That title get you? Did you actually think I meant that I was going to start working instead of blogging? Ha! No seriously.  I looked back at some of my recent posts and realized I’ve taken a bit of a vacation from writing about what really gets me going – the ups and downs of working motherhood (with a bit [...]

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A Room With a View

July 11, 2007

So a higher-up at work stopped by yesterday to tell me that I’m moving offices some time in the next few weeks.  Normally, this would have brought on intense annoyance. I hate moving. I hate packing, and especially hate unpacking. With 3 1/2 years of clutter around me, I really don’t feel like coming in on a [...]

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“Knocked Up” knocks around stereotypes

June 11, 2007

In the movie, “Knocked Up” (which I saw over the weekend) the main character, a woman in her early twenties, happens to get pregnant accidentally. (Warning, plot spoiler ahead.)  She’s also very career-focused, saying she didn’t envision having a baby “for another 10 years.” (I’ll save that for another blog topic.)  In fact, when she was eight [...]

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More news about “on-ramping”

May 18, 2007

Yesterday, the New York Times published an article by famed “opt-out” author Lisa Belkin on ways women are re-entering the workforce after baby.  There really was nothing new or earth-shattering in the article that we didn’t already know.  Again, Lehman Bros. was mentioned as one company that’s really making an effort to re-hire women who’ve been out [...]

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Lunching with BlackBerrys

May 15, 2007

Whenever I get to go to lunch for work and someone else pays for it, I get a giddy feeling inside. Buying lunch is expensive, and since I’m making a lot less money than I used to by working part-time, and I am way too lazy and disorganized in the morning to make my own lunch, [...]

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“Lunch and learns” – working mom style

May 1, 2007

I haven’t really ventured into luncheon-land since I’ve been back to work.  For the past 8 months (20 if you count when I was pregnant), I’ve avoided the “lunch and learn.” You know, those two-hour-long guest speaker PowerPoint snore-fests at fancy restaurants where you have to eat family style Italian and make small “business” talk with the person next [...]

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