Four Steps to Defending Your Career
Working in digital public affairs, people don’t always understand what I do day to day. Honestly, it’s pretty hard to explain to someone who’s never worked in a “behind the scenes” type of job....
Tagged: generation Y
We’re Only Human: Tips to Avoid Making Mistakes at Work
Happy Monday, y’all! Exploding kitchen. Burning hand. Piping-hot wax covering my arm. I don’t think a normal person would describe their romantic Valentine’s dinner date with the aforementioned details, but I guess I’m not...
Cocktails with Colleagues: A Survival Guide
Happy Monday, ladies! Most people in Washington, D.C. spent the past week gearing up for today’s presidential inauguration and all its associated activities. While I refuse to attend the ceremony with 800,000 strangers and...
Life at the Bottom of the Totem Pole
Happy Monday, Career Girls! This is my first post in 2013 so it only feels natural to discuss our New Year’s Resolutions, but I think we’re all feeling slightly bitter that we vowed to...
Tales from the Energizer Bunny
Happy Monday and Merry Christmas Eve! This holiday season is my favorite time of the year – even if nothing in my frazzled life makes sense, everything feels just right at Christmas (or maybe...
Should you ever take a job you hate?
I’m picky. I admit it. I’m picky about everything – friends, hair, jewelry, and boys; and yes, I am picky about employment – even in this employer’s market. Now that I work in two...
What Would You do with a Million Dollars?
Welcome to Ms. Career Girl’s shortest blog post ever. I had some really interesting conversations this weekend that really got me thinking. I’m sure you’ll hear more about these soon. Here’s one fragment for you...
Penelope Trunk’s Interesting Personal Branding Strategy
What is the first thing you think of when I say Penelope Trunk? A very interesting article by Fast Company points out the obvious, yet interesting, personal branding strategy of Gen Y career “expert” and...
The Holidays as a Twentysomething
Today marks the beginning of the holiday season. A season which changes as we get older. I couldn’t help but observe the chatter going on between other twentysomethings on Facebook and Twitter (and from my own friends)...
Ramit Says: What do you NOT care about spending money on?
By, Nicole Crimaldi If you’re like most twentysomething females, balancing your personal finances is sometimes a tough job. Not only do we have the normal expenses of food, rent and utilities,we have the temptation...