A job faux-pas leads me to suspect I’m not that funny.

We never stop learning, only trying.

It’s human nature that no matter age or situation, individuals forced together in any capacity will experience confrontation.  Now, it might not  be  that each individual finds themselves in a rebuttal with every person they …

For many of us just starting out in our careers, navigating the office politics can be as hard or harder than learning the job itself. Cubicle slaves such as myself find things like “Dilbert” and …

No man is an island. I remember being on the edge of age six and standing at a podium in a huge synagogue and reading that quote at my sister’s bat mitzvah. At the time, I was mostly swept into a few thoughts- including “who are all of these people and why are they looking at me like I’m a little pink satin cupcake they’re about to eat?” and “…I wonder if I can trust the person who told me that the S in Island is silent?”

More than 20 years later, I’m struck by the precision of this quote- “No Man is an Island,” and a little sheepish about how long it’s taken me to understand these words and be able to apply them.

I’d also like to ask, readers, what do you need to ask for in your life??? Post it as a comment. Or ask the people that you need this from directly.

Sometimes we just need to ask for the things we want and need.

A friend posted the following quote on his facebook today. “When life hands you lemons, if you ask nicely for help, sometimes people will make lemonade for you!”

Never were truer words spoken. You know, as I’ve come across bushels and bushels of lemons in my mid 20s and been told to make lemonade- I’ve often despaired that I don’t know how to make it. Literally.

So, if you’d like to help me make some lemonade. I’m setting up shop at this link.

http://www.sam-e.com/job/entries/507

I’d love to create a new resume that actually shows why I’d be good at a job or allows me to have some personality.

Is it ever really possible to truly start over?

In the time it takes to peruse the Sunday ‘want’ ads, take comfort in the fact that someone else out there has just raised an absolute killing in a ghastly attempt at feigning political dexterity.  Or …