Spicy Geek Romance with Cinnamon-Roll Heroes
Spicy Geek Romance with Cinnamon-Roll Heroes
First off thank you to all of the subscribers on the WordPress reader that have been with me over the years. I love that all 520+ of you have stayed with me through career transition posts, writing samples, and podcast show notes. I’d like for you to now MOVE WITH ME as I go to …
**Note: There will be some stereotyping in this post (denotative meaning) to achieve a lighthearted and fun (connotative meaning) tone. (In other words, get the heck over yourself, and have some fun! It’s Black Panther week!)** With not just the highest pre-sales record for a Marvel® movie, but now the highest pre-sales record for any superhero …
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Sometimes, you get to a point when a hobby is really not a hobby anymore. You get to a point where you have to take yourself seriously if you want others to take you seriously. You get to a point where the work you put into something should be recognized, appreciated, rewarded. I’m at this …
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One thing we can certainly count on other than death and taxes is change. If you’re in a career transition, trust that the eventual change to end that transition will happen.
I found this blog article from Dana Manciagli on LinkedIn as one of today’;s featured posts. This is a great checklist of reasons why you may not have gotten an interview callback. All of these reasons have to do with what you say, how you say it and why you are saying it. Our mouths …
Great blog article about the ways of the workforce from Andrew Toy. You’ve likely worked for bosses or managers who just don’t understand. I’m not talking about the inability to sympathize. I’m talking about a literal inability to understand… Source: Climbing Up the Corporate Christmas Tree
I found a personal essay about the search for an academic writing job by Emilia Phillips in today’s Practicing Writing blog post from Erika Driefus. This personal essay captures the essence of the process of finding a writing job, a professorship, or both. It’s a well-written emotive account of the struggle and the sacrifice writers and writing …
Today, I felt the need to revisit my previous post on career stereotyping and how you can overcome it. I’m in the well-known place of needing to figure out how to remarket and re-brand myself (since the last time worked out so well–sarcasm) to try to garner that elusive writing job my career so desperately longs …
It has been a while since I began thinking about career transition. Here’s a great article I found on the subject. It’s encouraging and helpful in providing steps to begin. Make it happen because no one goes to bed at night worrying about your career
For the past several years, my career and my life has been one of transition: going from writer-in-my-head (and to a few friends) with a day job to struggling novelist with a day job to unpublished novelist and adjunct English instructor to struggling novelist with a day job and adjunct English Instructor. I never thought …