Have You Thought About Becoming a Motivational Speaker?

Thom Singer just wrote a post called Busy, but no complaints! The life of a motivational speaker.  Thom has been a speaker since I knew him, and was one of two authors I spoke with before I came out with my first book.  For most of the time I’ve known him he has had a [...]

What is your (career) purpose in life?

I’ve been thinking about a blog post from Penelope Trunk titled Being an expert takes time, not talent. On my mind was this part:
Figure skating is a good example. I figure skated for ten years. I was good, until I went through puberty and then was clearly the wrong body type to be doing double [...]

You Are Now Free To Do What You Want

Since I lost my job I’ve done stuff I never thought I would have, or could have done.  This is all stuff I’ve wanted to do but never got around to doing it.
Tonight I was thinking about WHY I have done this stuff since I lost my job, and not before (when I was working).  [...]

Working Moms and Careers

I’m not a working mom.  Just thought I’d clear the air on that one.
I did, however, come across a really cool resource for working moms (or soon-to-be working moms).  The Working Mother Experience is a blog that supports a 250 page book with “essays written by EMC women (and one man) from around the world. [...]

Other Career Goals for 2009

Yesterday I talked about career goals for 2009, focusing on fixing up my resume and having it ready as part of my overall career strategy.
Today I’ll share some of my other career goals.  Understand that I’m actually self-employed… this either means I’m (a) not looking for a job, or (b) always looking for the next [...]

Getting a handle on work/life balance

This is the sixth in a series of eight posts, each linked to one of eight categories in the Career Resumes blog. These posts sum up the best pieces of advice, tips, direction, insights, and answers discovered and shared on the blog by Allen Voivod, Chief Blogger for Career-Resumes.com from October 2006 to September 2008.
Work-life [...]

Dress code as part of work-life balance?

So my father-in-law, apropos of nothing, suddenly announces that he doesn’t understand why women aren’t allowed to wear shorts in the workplace.
Huh?
I asked him a couple of time to explain how this constitutes a dress code oppression on professional women, and I still don’t quite get it. It’s not like men are allowed to wear [...]

Will saying “No” hurt you in your current job (and make you have to brush up your resume fast)?

On the heels of a recent blog post in regard to saying “No,” I thought I’d expand on one of the examples provided in a linked article from Real Simple magazine:
Saying No for the Sake of Your Time
Request: You are offered a promotion that you don’t want. Even though it means more money, it demands [...]

Can saying “No” help or hurt your work-life balance?

My son suddenly decided he loves that old Three Dog Night song “One [Is the Loneliest Number]” and I’ve been paying a bit closer attention to the lyrics as a result.
This line hit me the other day: “No is the saddest experience you’ll ever know.” And I thought to myself, “Are you kidding? ‘No’ is [...]

Another way to bring balance back

One of the interesting things about achieving the dream of a satisfactory “work/life balance” is that no one ever says they have too much life and not enough work. Why is that?
Well, maybe there’s no such thing as too much life, I suppose.
But one way to bring the work thing back into balance, which we [...]