I want to know why we (readers, consumers, whoever) are so willing to pay for the cheap? Cheap has nothing to do with actual monetary cost, but has everything to do with the intangibles spent and the value gained. There are lots of ways to spend cheap. You are paying with attention spans from your brain, minutes lost in conversation (or translation), bits of disappointment or sadness.
(re)Examining Modern Convention
Category Archives: 9 to 5: Reinvention or Resignation
Something About Career, My Blog – and Look at This Eyeball
Anyway, I attended the Brazen Career meetup hosted by the ever lovely Charlotte Mutesha of Miz Chartreuse. The purpose of the meet up was to get friendly with other like-minded-ass-in-the-driver’s-seat-of-their-career folk (aka networking) and something about crowdsourcing your career
Throwing Away the Pink Controller – Girls, Gaming & Technology
The real question is not about how to create access for girls to learn about consumer technologies as possible career fields – but what kinds of access and what to do with it once they are exposed.
My 15 Minutes of Fame Revisited (In Case You Missed It)
In case you blinked last Monday (like the rest of the world), I was on the cover of the RedEye and in a feature story about Gen Y job hopping.
Tips for Navigating Job Depression
And, while job depression (or JD) is not always about a job – here are some ideas that have helped me “suffer” the bad times a bit better.
The Problem with the CYA Mantra
The CYA mantra insists that work be done in vacuums at your cubicles. As long as you take care of your part of the load – everyone is fine.
Ways to Break Out of the Administrative Job Cycle (Part 5)
And, the relationship with our career (or job) is best described as the relationship we have with ourselves
Ways to Break Out the Administrative Job Cycle (Part 4)
There’s nothing too sexy about the labor of organizing paperwork. It can be a challenge to find the creative bits and pieces of any job. Yet, this is even more apparent when your work demands that you schedule lunches, fax documents and keep the kitchen clean.