My half-brother needs a new job, ASAP. My half-brother is also the biggest technophobe I have ever encountered, by far. It borders on a true phobia, and he has it in his head that he simply cannot learn anything related to computers, including how to word processing and email. At my insistence, he has…
Is your supervisor a bully or just a terrible person? Do you often feel like you want to cuss at your coworkers or customers? Are you spending time in the parking lot psyching yourself up for another day at a crummy job? You aren’t alone. Here are some tips to help you get…
I’ve always been a “don’t read the comments” person, but I recently read a social media opinion piece that was immediately followed by a cruel comment that I saw without intending to. It read, with my apologies for the language, “When they get to vote, they go full retard.” My immediate desire was to…
Let’s face it: there’s a lot going on right now, and you’re not alone if you’re overwhelmed with all of it, especially if you’re also looking for a job. How can you keep things moving? The first thing to remember is to curate the news you consume. You want to be informed, of…
You know the supposed wisdom floating around out there: do a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life, blah blah blah. But is it true? Do you really need to love your job? The answer, of course, is that it depends. Some people absolutely need to feel their work is…
Should you disclose a disability when you apply for a job? How about after you’ve accepted a role? People often fear that disclosing such a thing will either get them disqualified or make the employer hold certain opinions about them. Some also feel they need to disclose this info or they’re being dishonest. So let’s…
Now that we’re clear on when to hand in your resignation, how the heck do you do it? As was true of the when question, the truth is that it depends. If your office is small enough that you interact with your bosses frequently, you will want to get on your supervisor’s calendar and…
We hear a lot about resilience, but what does it mean and how does it play into career growth? The simplest definition for resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune and change. And if your work experiences have been anything like mine, you’ve seen a lot of misfortune…
Were you as excited as I was about “Everything Everywhere All at Once” making such a clean sweep at the Oscars? Part of my excitement, of course, was that, as an Asian American, I felt very validated and visible, which was very much not the case for most of my life. (Though I will forever…
Last week, I talked about the definition of “quiet quitting” as just having good boundaries, but what about people who are actually quietly quitting, being disengaged at work and doing just enough to get by? If this is you, chances are good that you have a reason for your disengagement. Maybe you have poor leadership…