Reader Anne Witkavitch writes in a comment to a previous posting about the valuable commodity that is time:
As one who is juggling family, career, and graduate school pursuing my dream to write and publish, I hear the same comment over and over again: “I don’t know how you do it.”
I cringe each time I hear this phrase. Although
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My friend Simon Robinson, our esteemed South Asia bureau chief, sent me this story. He wrote:
What should you do when you make a mistake–a genuine mistake–that impacts your company in a minor (or major–read below!) way? I assume you should take the route my three-year-old does and ‘fess up with the line, “It was an accident!” Pretty
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I recently attended a job fair. Not because I was looking for work; I am, as of 4:19 p.m. on March 20, 2007, still, to my knowledge, employed. I went on assignment to talk to a particular set of jobseekers. I can’t tell you who just yet–not until my story meets its usual fate, bludgeoned to a mangy pulp and left for dead in the morgue …
We’ve heard about the $6,000 shower curtains and the gilded umbrella stand. So we’re not exactly gobsmacked to hear former Enron head Kenneth Lay’s office was decked out in similarly tasteful style.
Now you, too, can experience the sensation of steering a multibillion-dollar corporation into the ground! You–yes, you–can buy the late …
What’s the point? What’s it all for? Where’s my life going? When do I get there? Is this all there is? What do I really want to do?
When these are the questions that keep you up at night, you call a man named Curt Rosengren.
Rosengren calls himself a “passion catalyst.” He’s a Seattle-based career counselor who works with up to 50 …
Why do we work?
On the face of it, that’s a stupid question. We work to put food on the table and a roof over our heads, of course. We work toward the prospect of children in college and ourselves in rocking chairs. In other words: we work because we have to.
TIME is running a series of stories called Why We Work in which we explore …
I was in Chicago yesterday covering a conference. My job there involved walking up to strangers in an unfamiliar if not totally hostile setting, introducing myself, and engaging them in intimate conversation. This is, in fact, pretty much what a lot of my job entails.
There was a time when the prospect would make me sweat like a sumo …
I got a nice note from Brodie, star of the video résumé I featured here. I had posted his TVCV, which he’d sent to CareerBuilder’s Disney Dream Job Contest for pirates, parade performers and the like.
Thanks for the link and the kind words. My Haunted Mansion video was not chosen to be a finalist… because my Jungle Cruise video
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I’m about to take a holiday. If you can call it that. For the first two weeks in April, my sister and I are going to visit our very ill mom in Japan. It’s a 24-plus-hour trip, and factoring in (our kids’) jet lag, we’ll have maybe one good week of doctor visits, housecleaning and grandpa-sitting.
At many jobs, this one trip would gobble …
Here’s some unusually fresh–and wise–advice to job-hunting new grads, courtesy of the University of Southern California’s planning and placement center:
1) Your handbag should not be bigger than your skirt.
This one’s for the ladies, but men, take heed too: Interviews are not the place for trend-setting. If you want to dress to
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From reader Jennifer Gerlach:
1. No more paper cuts
2. Hard to convey charisma in 12 point Times Roman
3. Two pages not long enough for both valedictory speech and Who’s Who entry
4. No need to spell-check portfolio videos
5. Digital portfolio pictures could save many a rain forest
6. You might actually land a job because a resume
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The thing about working at TIME is that some days you find yourself chatting over coffee about foreign policy; other days, you find yourself chatting over coffee with the people who make the policy.
That’s what happened late last month, when a senior adviser to Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe trooped into our conference room with his …
