If you’re like most people I know, you sometimes feel like a fraud or a disappointment to your loved ones. This feeling is pretty normal, but it’s also absolutely untrue. The truth is that success is a) not particularly linear, and b) something nobody else gets to define for you. That means that your interesting…
DetailsThese are trying times, especially for those in roles heavily impacted by layoffs. Whether you’ve been laid off yourself (or laid off and then re-hired) or you know people have, things feel stressful and uncertain. I don’t have all the answers, but I do have a few resources for those leaving federal roles, voluntarily or…
DetailsWhen your computer glitches or won’t open something, what’s the first thing you do? (Okay, the second thing, after cussing it out.) You reboot, right? Humans need rebooting sometimes too! I’m as guilty as anyone of failing to take vacation time, but I’m learning my lessons. When I worked for a university, I would personally…
DetailsAre you dragging yourself to work every day, and feeling like starting your day is a monumental chore? Have you started questioning the value of your work? Do you get impatient with your coworkers, clients or even your boss? Is your job-related energy low or nonexistent? Are you feeling a constant sense of dissatisfaction and…
DetailsI can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you that I’ve had enough of living in unprecedented times! Give me precedented, give me utterly uneventful. Sadly, that isn’t likely to happen anytime soon, so how can we all survive? One of the biggest challenges is the economic uncertainty that so many of us…
DetailsIf you’re older than 40, chances are good that you have wondered, at least once or twice, “Are they overlooking me because of my age?” And, unfortunately, chances are also good that they are. So here are some tips so you can get in front of employers instead of getting weeded out before you have…
DetailsHave you ever set a goal for yourself and fizzled out? A quick online check will tell you that, according to most measures, only about 10% of New Year’s resolutions actually happen, and I see much the same pattern in the rest of life. Why do we fail to keep these promises to ourselves? Step…
DetailsYou know the supposed wisdom floating around out there: do a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life, blah blah blah. But is it true? Do you really need to love your job? The answer, of course, is that it depends. Some people absolutely need to feel their work is…
DetailsYou may have heard about so-called ghost jobs, but what are they and why do they exist? More importantly, how can you avoid them? Ghost jobs are simply postings for fake jobs. In other words, unlike scams, these are job postings from real employers, but there’s no actual job to be had. There are a…
DetailsEarlier this month, I wrote about how saying no can be a valuable part of self-care, but in a world that has conditioned us to yes, it can be incredibly hard to identify, let alone voice, our objections. How can you find and use what author Sunita Sah calls your True No? As is often…
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