When people talk about work-life balance they are usually talking about how much time a woman spends working on her career versus spending time with her family. One imagines a two-sided scale with family on one side and job on the other. If you don't have enough time for one side you move it from … Continue reading Work-life balance is an over-simplification
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When people talk about "women in tech" they usually mean female engineers or women who have risen to positions of executive leadership, but there are a lot of women in tech who are neither of those things. Analysts and project managers are to "women in tech" what stay at home moms are to the general feminist … Continue reading Not engineers or executives: The other women in tech
Below are 13 possible answers to a common job interview question. I don't recommend you use any of them. "Describe a time when you were challenged." 1. What does that have to do with anything? 2. Describe a time when I was challenged? By a "job?" Please. Nothing so banal as a mere job can … Continue reading Bad responses to a job interview question: 13 variations on a theme
Today wasn't exactly a snow day. The nearly 3 feet of snow that fell in Chicago since last Tuesday finally stopped late Sunday night. Today was a day shut down due to extreme cold. A freeze day? The polar vortex-inox? (Please don't call it Chiberia) Regardless of what you call it a lot of people … Continue reading Snow days for grown ups are different
For the month of October Listing Toward Forty is Listing Toward Halloween, featuring a variety of Halloween posts including many by guest authors. This post is by Christine Mancini. You Get Paid to Do What? I’ve been working in seasonal “haunts” since the early 1990s. I’ve always loved all things horror movie and Halloween. I … Continue reading Scaring is therapy for this professional zombie
Kim Z. Dale 