I’ve been thinking about my career…a lot. Where I’ve been, what’s good and not-so-great about my current career, and where I’d like to be in the future. As I look back over the 25-year (gulp!) work history, I think I’ve had a pretty good run of it. Every employment opportunity that I’ve had has allowed
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I plagiarized a book when I was Kindergarten. I re-drew the illustrations, inserted my own version of the narrative, and assembled the pages for my teacher to review. I was proud. I didn’t have any concept that this was wrong – and at the age of 5, why would I have had any such
Remember those days when an alarm clock woke you up and you had that delicious option of pressing “snooze”? Yeah, I don’t remember either. Today, my day started at 3:26am (is that even considered morning?) with a crying infant who lost his pacifier. After plugging him back up I went back to bed and as
Perhaps that title should read “crazier” because “crazy” is already the defining characteristic of my life. Wait, I know…top 5 ways to send a working mom OVER THE EDGE. 1. Notes home Got a note home from camp about my son not having a napkin in his lunch today. Seriously. A napkin. For my 8-year-old son who
As you know I have been working in a new job which I accepted while I was 11 weeks pregnant. It has been tough to be the newbie and pregnant with a toddler, and then having a newborn but in the end it has been totally worth it. Lately though I have been sitting back
Are you a mom who works in a profession that requires you to be a rainmaker, expand your company’s network and influence, or develop a reputation as an industry leader? Better yet, are you an entrepreneur of some kind? If so, there is a powerful way to leverage your role as a parent in
The two sisters referenced in the title are not actually sisters. One woman is my younger sister; the other is my DH’s younger sister, so my sister-in-law. Both are in their early 30s. And that’s about where the similarities end. My sister is planning a wedding for next year, and moved to the other
[*Alternate Title: “In Which Melanie’s Feminist Card Is Revoked, Hell Freezes Over, And An Inconvenient Truth Is Recognized”] I am exhausted. Tomorrow is Saturday, and it’s also the one day a month where we do the billing in my office and I need to come in to help. Normally that’s not an issue at
I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to be when I grew up. In fact, as a kid, I didn’t want to be, well, anything. No ballerina, doctor or astronaut for me. I was kinda lazy and not very ambitious. I was an average student with no real favorite subjects. I did love
I have always wanted to be a working mom. Looking back, I am not sure when I made this decision or really why. But now here I am – after having my baby girl in October, I am finally faced with heading back to work next week. To my surprise, I have really been questioning
