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Employable, profitable, steady. Isn’t that what most people would want their kid’s course of study and career trajectory to be? For my eldest son, that path lasted less than the first semester of his freshman year and I couldn’t be happier. In honor of the graduation season and new endings and beginnings, I’m revisiting the…

No one likes to be unemployed. Anxiety is high as uncertainty becomes your daily bread. Doing the hard work of securing a job is enough to make you want to take very long naps even on the sunniest of temperate days. You put on your “big boy/big girl undies” and get to the biz of…

What was your criteria for taking on your job or career? Did you follow a romance or spouse to a new city and take whatever you could find? Did you set out to fulfill the path you chose when you declared your college major? Did life lead you to something unexpected? Knowing what got you…

Cilia: Plural noun, singular cilium [sil-ee-uh m] 1. Biology. minute hair-like organelles, identical in structure to flagella, that line the surfaces of certain cells and beat in rhythmic waves, providing locomotion 2. Anatomy. The eyelashes The Latin for eyelash is cilium and in biology, cilia provide locomotion for the cell. Moving your career forward is…

It happened again. I went to yoga and was inspired to share a distinction that could be useful. Again, the instruction was about the yoga poses, and it also made so much sense for life. The teacher was encouraging the students in the room while we were all in a one-legged pose spreading the rest…