The Job Security Myth
I was raised in a Southern, blue-collar family. “Git r’ done, boy!” and “Does a bear shit in the woods?” were some of the typical phrases heard on a daily basis. I received a rifle for my 10th...
View ArticleDreams from Twelfth Grade: Lessons from a letter I wrote to myself in high...
During senior year of high school, my environmental science teacher asked all of us, his students, to write a letter to our future selves. He promised that when five years passed, he would mail our own...
View ArticleJob Searching Sucks….But It Doesn’t Have To!
The joy of unemployment is that you have an incredibly wide open schedule in which to accomplish goals. The terror of unemployment is that you have an incredibly wide open schedule in which to push...
View ArticleCareer Therapy: Getting professional help when the going gets tough
Intro: Deciding to get therapy Have you ever considered getting professional help for your quarterlife crisis and general career confusion? Maybe my personal experience will be helpful to you....
View ArticleA life abroad- Costa Rica
One of our writers, Alli Whalen, is teaching English in Costa Rica for a few months. Check back in for her updates on living a quarterlife abroad. I’m sitting on a very comfortable couch with white,...
View ArticleCareer Exploration
Career development while in the Quarter Life phase is an on-going decision, yoga job stretching process…full of trials, tribulations, tragedy and triumph…& that’s just looking for work on...
View ArticleA Quarterlifer Abroad Part 3: A Costa Rica Love Story
One of our writers, Alli Whalen, is teaching English in Costa Rica for a few months. Check back in for her updates on living a quarterlife abroad. We stood behind the gates of the school in the dark,...
View ArticleJob Advice? Net versus Reality. Who ya got?
All too often in these days of utter economic gloom, the college degree meaningless and the corner “spare some change man?” guy’s job looking better and better…we get a lot of quick, cheesy short lists...
View ArticleOperation Employment
by John Durfee Though I now work in a great office at Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft guns, it took a strategic search to find this position and I am often dismayed at the struggles...
View ArticleNetworking For More Than a Job: The External Benefits of Networking
We all know that one of the best strategies for finding work is to network. Talking with employers of a company or organization you’d want to work for, staff members who can tell you the inside scoop...
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