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Admit it. Unless you’ve found your soulful work, there are days when you come home from the job and toy with the idea of ditching it to move on to something better. But is ditching your job the best answer? It all depends on your circumstances.
A few days ago, CNN published a (somewhat surprisingly) insightful [...]

Related to yesterday’s post on my own commitments for the new year…Barbara Safani at Career Hub suggests eight terrific Career Management Resolutions for 2008…Arnie Herz at Legal Sanity highlights Keith Ferrazzi’s Goal Post app for Facebook, a new cool tool that gets your Facebook pals to help you stay on target to achieving your goals.

Anne Zelenka at Web Worker Daily conjures up a nice bit of integrative thinking by linking the process of securing international aid to the process of navigating our career journey. She writes of the differences between a top-down strategy (planning) which is fine if you know exactly where you’re going and a bottom-up strategy (searching) [...]

Someone very close and dear to me is experiencing a challenge that’s rather painful and isn’t unique to just her career. She has approached a crisis moment in her professional path where she no longer wants to continue practicing what she has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in. Some folks may find this a liberating [...]

I just published my first post over at Career Hub where I’ll be writing a few times a month. Here’s the beginning excerpt.
Sometimes I get overcharged,
that’s when you see sparks.
They ask me where the hell I’m going?
At a 1000 feet per second,
hey man, slow down, slow down,
idiot, slow down, slow down.
Radiohead – The Tourist
I [...]